After a couple of drab efforts, Nocturnal Rites return to some kind of form with this, their sixth album. There've never been any pretensions about these Swedes - they play a straightforward brand of power metal, with verse-chorus-verse-chorus song structures throughout, relying on energetic playing and catchy hooks. Here, such hooks can be found with the likes of "Against The World" and the excellent "Avalon". Some other songs are reasonable, without doing anything wonderful, but that's how Nocturnal Rites does things, and for the relatively undemanding, this is worth a few listens.
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