Veonity - Gladiator's Tale
This is how to release a power metal album! From the very start, this debut full length from some talented Swedes is an awesome slab of power metal. Strong, powerful vocals (no wimpy warbling here!), really fantastic melodies both instrumentally and vocally and a gladiator concept running through the release. Following lots of bad releases in the last few years, power metal may have a new force to challenge the throne once kept by the likes of Hammerfall and such contemporaries thereafter. This has the same refreshing feeling of the first Lost Horizon album for me (‘Awakening The World’) from Veonity’s fellow countrymen.
The melody is infectious, ‘Phoenix Arise’ is blessed with such character, this IS a festival anthem and the range of Anders Sköld’s (although it could be Markus De Silva who actually recorded the album - then left - it’s not clear in the files I was sent) vocals are very special. They have power, strength and don’t lose momentum when the high notes are nailed with a massive amount of professionalism. The riffs gallop like the late 90’s heyday, some material reminds me of the early days and most recent output by Hammerfall, especially ‘Let Me Die’, there a sincere amount of admiration from me here. Of course, the strength for comes from another real plus point, there are NO orchestral parts!!! That is what’s really weakened this sub-genre in my opinion, but ‘Gladiator’s Tale’ is back to the real power metal business!
You may have all the clichés in your mind, but Veonity are an essential band to listen too. Clichés can be burned at the stake, this is a strong metal album, yes it follows a particular sub-genre path, but the as the story unfolds you will not find a weakened moment, not even the sweet stuff that usually appears on such albums I must say! ‘Gladiator’s Tale’ is no nonsense, anthem defining power metal at its near best, a band an album well worthy of checking out.
The melody is infectious, ‘Phoenix Arise’ is blessed with such character, this IS a festival anthem and the range of Anders Sköld’s (although it could be Markus De Silva who actually recorded the album - then left - it’s not clear in the files I was sent) vocals are very special. They have power, strength and don’t lose momentum when the high notes are nailed with a massive amount of professionalism. The riffs gallop like the late 90’s heyday, some material reminds me of the early days and most recent output by Hammerfall, especially ‘Let Me Die’, there a sincere amount of admiration from me here. Of course, the strength for comes from another real plus point, there are NO orchestral parts!!! That is what’s really weakened this sub-genre in my opinion, but ‘Gladiator’s Tale’ is back to the real power metal business!
You may have all the clichés in your mind, but Veonity are an essential band to listen too. Clichés can be burned at the stake, this is a strong metal album, yes it follows a particular sub-genre path, but the as the story unfolds you will not find a weakened moment, not even the sweet stuff that usually appears on such albums I must say! ‘Gladiator’s Tale’ is no nonsense, anthem defining power metal at its near best, a band an album well worthy of checking out.
- Into Eternity
- Phoenix Arise
- Unity
- Let Me Die
- Slaves In A Holy War
- Chains Of Blood
- For The Glory
- Gladiator's Tale
- Warrior Of Steel
- Born Out Of Despair
- King Of The Sky
- Farewell
Band: www.facebook.com/veonity
Reviewer: twansibon
Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015
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Masacre - Brutal Aggre666ion
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