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Thanks for the review. I'll check this out, though I was disappointed by Out of the Darkness after having liked their debut, Metal Renaissance, in 2011. The last 3 tracks on that album kill. She does have an awesome voice. Although I definitely appreciate a band with a sense of humor, I really dislike the trailer-park humor joke songs they insist on including, mostly since musically the two I've heard (Blood Vomit, Kill the Bitch) have been "laughably" simplistic, I'm sure deliberately so. Those tracks are of b-side/bonus track quality at best, but there they are smack in the middle of the album awaiting the skip button.

Because Out of the Darkness didn't do it for me, this band's spot in my playlists got taken over in 2012 by the somewhat similar The Order of Chaos from Canada.

I guess you know more than I do. The first album I heard by them was Out of the Darkness, and I thought it was a very good album. Calat Alhambra is one of my songs of the year, that's for sure, and I have no problem with their sense of humor or songs that go along those lines.

I took part in their Kickstarter event for this EP and the new upcoming album 'Time's Arrow'. I'm really looking forward to finding this in my mailbox soon so I can give you my thoughts on it. If you live in the mid-Atlantic region of the US they have a show coming up in Springfield, Virginia at a venue called Empire (previously Jaxx) with Doro and Sister Sin. I'm going!

Somehow I did not get a Kickstarter e-mail on this. Probably wasn't on their list. Would have supported it wholeheartedly. I live in NW Ohio, so Springfield is out of question, but, please, attend, enjoy and share the experience.
BTW, Kickstarter is a fucking awesome invention. Allows you to raise funds on one hand and support what you believe in on the other. One of my company's business partners raise a little over half mln, and another business partner close to $3 mln. These of course aren't metal musician, but upstart technology companies (who, BTW, have supercool technologies I am so happy to be associated with, and help to faclilitate).