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Another review we weren't exactly waiting for.

Your point about it being sad to be unable to end an album with a song of your own is silly. Nearly every time a band adds covers to their album, it's at the back of it. Think of the Obituary cover on Blood Red Throne's Monument of Death, for a start. Excellent album, excellent cover of Deadly Intentions, excellent closure.

That's Affiliated With The Suffering, actually, but good point.

Arr, the failure of mankind in me. Thanks for correcting me.

if they describe themselves as 'power metal meets numetal' i'm really not wanting to check it out just from those words

This is a CD that I've been meaning to check out. I actually liked the clips that I heard from the album. They seemed a lot like Xandria, but maybe more raw on production. I don't know. I'm still going to check them out.

I would also like to mention that it is not necessarily a band's fault that labels are signing tons and tons of metal band's with chick singers now. This band has been around since 2000, I think they deserve a little bit more respect when it comes to the Evanescence comments. Yes, Evanescence blew up because some label asshole had the forsight to know that putting a Linkin Park-esque singer on that one song would make it a hit.

I've said it before that the song without the male vocalist is still a great song—yes, a GREAT song—but it would have kept the band off of MTV, thus allowing Evanescence to be more accepted in the metal community. But at the same time would not have opened doors for bands like Nightwish and Lacuna Coil. But we know what happened with Evanescence and because of that labels are scooping these bands up like a fat guy digging into a bowl of M&Ms. In the end, though, it is not the band's fault, especially a band that began long before Evanescence's rise to fame.

I haven't heard this album completely, but like I said, I did like the samples I heard. Now don't get me wrong, they may very well suck, but I think the constant comparisons to Evanescence and insults (see "peddling watered down garbage") that virtually every female-fronted metal band gets these days is a bit unfounded, especially bands that have paid their dues, like Morning.

So I guess "The Sound of Perseverence" by Death must be crap since its last song was a Judas Priest cover (and a very good one at that).

Either way, although I haven't heard (or even heard of) this album, judging from the review a 25/100 sounds a little harsh. Especially after the reviewer stated that none of the songs were "truly awful/abysmal." May be a 45/100 would have been a bit more reasonable then.

I mentioned Evanescence (once) at the start of the review as I wished to get across my opinion about the state of female fronted metal. I feel that there are a lot of talented acts out there, but the number of bands such as this, who are not producing anything of real creative worth, yet still attaining fame, undeservedly outweighs them. I see bands like this getting record contracts whilst fantastic bands like Winterfell are looked over and it strikes me as sad. Furthermore, it wasn't an insult, it was an opinion on the state of that which I've just mentioned here. Strong words yes, but I feel strongly about the issue.



Exactly, Hence the number of appaling bands of this ilk around at the moment. It is however the bands fault if they're no good.



If you enjoy the album a lot, and feel I've treated it unfairly then please underquote me. Put your score down and it'll come up whith mine when people read the review. Alternative points of view and all that.

Well, we both seem to feel strongly on the issue, I was by no means trying to tear down your opinion, I just read a lot of reviews that trash bands and basically call them copycat bands when they're not. I'm just saying that a band may not appeal to you, per se, but that doesn't mean they're in it just to make a quick buck. Some bands are actually genuine bands that are working hard at creating something they feel is good. Yes, many times it is not, but I still think too many bands get a bad rap.

My comments were more general in nature, I chose to your comments as a springboard. I mean, let's put it this way, how many Lacuna Coil reviews did you read for Comalies that said they were trying to copy Evanescence? I read tons.

putting a cover at the end of an album simply means that the band wants to separate it from the main body of work, like it was more of a bonus track. that's common practice and not a reason to criticize an album

I know where you're coming from and to a certain extent I agree. I was just trying to get across the point that many bands seem to be gaining kudos for belonging to a popular formula while others that are pushing the envelope get looked over. Now don't get me wrong just because a band belongs to a popular formula, it is then terrible, far from it. (just take a look at my favourite band list if you need proof of that!) In this case however it was and I scored how I felt about the music, not about the formula. I apologise if I came the impression of the latter, it wasn't my intention.

About the cover, bad choice of phrase, I stand corrected. It's still a very lame cover however.

Thanks for the criticism guys.

That is one of the worst aspects about being a music fan. This happens in every genre. It sucks.

Wow. I heard some sample, and it was actually worse than mediocre. :shock: