Signed to the right label, anyway 
Artiste: Raising Fear
Nationality: Italian
Album: Eternal creed
Year: 2010
Label: Crash and Burn
Genre: Power/Progressive Metal
Tracks:
Eternal creed
The chosen one
Lords of Orion
Sleepless night
Find your life
You belong to me
Amon Ra
Learn to die
The power of the eye
Born again
Holy battle
Symbols from the past
Chronological position: Third album
Familiarity: Zero
Interesting factoid: This is one of no less than
three metal bands based in Italy called Raising Fear, and one in Portugal, making four in total. You wouldn't have thought it was that popular a name, would you?
Initial impression: Great instrumental opener, but then kind of descends into generic power metal for the most part...
Best track(s): Eternal creed, You belong to me, Amon Ra, Lords of Orion
Worst track(s): The chosen one, Learn to die
Comments: When I first went looking for information on this band I could find nothing, not a scrap. Course, the fact I thought the BAND was called Eternal Creed might have something to do with it! Having corrected my search, I found what I needed and can tell you this is another metal band from Italy, but on the strength of the opener (and title track) I think I can say that they may indeed stand a little apart from the glut of power/speed/thrash/add subgenre here metal bands coming out of that country. Then again, the second track is nothing special. Hmm. Okay then, let's listen and see how this develops, if at all.
A double guitar attack is always welcome as far as I'm concerned, and the guys do well here, though vocalist Rob Della Frera sounds more German than Italian to me. A rough, gruff voice but he doesn't descend into gutteral death vocals, however I think these guys may be trying too hard to be all things to all men, and not really that sure what they actually want to be. There's a broad (very broad) sense of Maiden's
Powerslave to
Lords of Orion and a feel of early Metallica to
Sleepless night, but by and large it's pretty much the same all the way through from what I can see.
Nice to see them take the tempo down with a very --- and I mean very --- nice ballad in
You belong to me where Della Frera gets to display the softer side of his voice and a lower range; still get that German accent though! Nice acoustic guitar work from either Frank Rider or Alberto Toniolo, can't say which as both are just credited with "guitars". Good backing vocals too, one of the standouts, but really that's just because most of the rest is so almost indistinguishable one from the other. Very generic. Good electric guitar solo too here, then it's back to normal with
Amon Ra, although to be fair there's more of the progressive metal about this, kind of a mixture of Kamelot and Sabbath.
Basically, I think the best I can say about this band is that --- certainly on this album, and I've heard no others of theirs so could be judging them unfairly --- they do what they do well, but they don't do anything new and there's little about the album that sticks in my mind five minutes after I've finished playing it. Never a good sign.
Overall impression: Pretty meh really. Not terrible, but I wouldn't be pushed if I never heard any more of their output.
Intention: Not really bothered about checking out any of their other albums.