Don't You Forget : Dreamtale - Beyond Reality

 I will never stop listen to this great album, and will always say that this is Dreamtale's best album. All of you who don't know Dreamtale, it is a Power Metal Band from Finland, it doesn't have a big name like Sonata Arctica or Stratovarius, but trust me, it also has very good musicality as the two big name I mentioned. This album begins with a very beautiful piano, and this is of course an introduction to the second song "Memories of Time. It is a true Power Metal song, straightforward, fast. The next song "Fallen Star", also a fast song, features female vocal by Sanna Natunen. The fouth track, an 8-minutes-long song, it is features Marco Hietala on vocal. Again, it is a fast song, but now with a little progressive element, a change of tempo. The next song "Where the Rainbow Ends", is not a fast song, just like Helloween's "Future World", or Strato's "Hunting High and Low", but one interesting thing here is the verse, really reminds me of the chorus of "Future World", if you listen to this, you know what I mean. Next is "Time of Fatherhood", a slow song, almost like a ballad, and the chorus, it won't let go off my mind. And we are back to a fast song called "Dreamland", which also features female vocal. I won't tell you the other songs, because they all almost similar. But, my most favorite song of this album is "Refuge from Reality", although it is on the low side of the list, you can't skip it.

It is a very great album, almost of the song has fast tempos, and catchy chorus, I would give this 100, but since it has time-wasting elements such as 8-minutes song and unimportant tempo change, I will give this a 95 out of 100

Thanks for reading, sorry for my bad grammar, Kiitos Paljon!!

After All - Dawn of the Enforcer, it is actually good

 You know that Thrash Metal isn't about Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax, or Kreator, Sodom, or Destructor. You should check the band named After All, it is from Belgium, formed in 1987 and, the album that I listened to, is titled "Dawn of the Enforcer". The opener is "Parasite Within", that has the usually great Thrash Metal riff, but the one thing that surprised me (in a negative way) is the vocal. For me, the vocal is not for the Thrash Metal, and if someone has a vocal character like this band's vocalist Sammy Peleman, he should be a vocalist for a Power Metal band, not a Thrash Metal band. In the third song, I found something that somehow similar to Lamb of God's "Laid to Rest" in the beginning of the song. The song "Spread the Infamy", a little bit reminds me of Anthrax, because of the guitar riffs, and the vocals that I now realized that it is similar to Joey Belladona's, and the seventh "Demolition Course", the guitar riffs reminds me of Kreator.

I can't talk more about any other song of this album, because it is almost similar to the others. You will get a Joey Belladona-esque vocals, a mix of Anthrax and Kreator riffs, a similar to Kreator drumming sometimes they also do blast-beats, and it is good. I can say that it is a hybrid between Anthrax and Kreator. I would rate this album an 80 out of 100.

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Age of Artemis, or Angra? Overcoming Limits 2012

A new Power Metal band, with strong influence from the fellow Brazilian, Angra, Age of Artemis launch their debut album in 2012 titled "Overcoming Limits"

This album, from the instruments playing until the mixing of the audio, it is really similar to Angra. But it is not Angra, because they have their own style, especially the vocalist that make this band a little bit different from Angra. This album begins with intro called "What Lies Behind", and continues with my absolutely favorite song of this album which called "Echoes Within". The fast double-bass drumming, the catchy chorus, and the vocals are really great, and the guitar solos by Gabriel Soto and Nathan Grego really blow my mind, they are really good. Next song is called "Mystery", not as fast as the previous one, but it also has the catchy chorus. The song that has similarity with this is called "Break Up the Chain", it is the sixth song of this album. The 4th song is also very special to me, it is called "Take Me Home", a ballad that has a progressive element in it, and that's very good. The ninth track of this album has more neo-classical atmosphere in my opinion, because of the Phrygian Major modes that they played and it is called "God, Kings and Fools". And the last song is "Till the End" that is similar to "Echoes Within" but not as good as that.

For me, it is like Angra with a different vocalist that have different style of vocal. The greatest of this album, for me, still "Echoes Within", when you listen, you know why that is my favorite. And because of the "Echoes Within", I would give this album a 90 out of 100.

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Paara, Deserves More Attentions

 This page only shows my experience when I listen to this great 6-piece Black Metal band from Finland. I listened only one of their album which is titled "Riitti". This album begins with a track called "Viimeinen Virta" which means ''The Last Stream'', it began with very slow drumming and very melancholy guitar playing, almost similar to what Doom Metal bands did, and with a grieving clean singing by the vocalist, that happens for like 9 minutes in this 15 minutes dong. The brutality came in the 9:00 mark, with unique shrieking vocals and not-too-fast blast-beats drumming, until almost in the end of the song, it backs to the beginning of the song. The next song in this album called "Hurmeen Hauta", it is a truly headbang-able song, with a minor-to-minor guitar chord progression, and the strange thing in this song is, somehow they played blast-beats drumming with a major guitar riffs. The next song is "Suon Sydan", that brings either calmness or sad impression, with almost neo-classical harmonic minor chord progression in the beginning, and then continues with a shrieking vocals, and again, the unique thing in this song is they played a hardcore punk drumming, the rest is what you have heard in the previous song. I don't want to write about anything in the last song, because it is really similar to what I listened previously.

Riitti is a very good and unique Black Metal album, that brought me to quietude but only in the beginning, and then really punch me in the face when it started its brutality with the blast-beats and shrieking vocals. One thing that I don't like in this album is, they combined a blast-beats drumming with the clean vocals. If I could rate this album, I would give it 80 out of 100.

Sorry for my bad grammar, and thanks for READING my review, Kiitos Paljon!