Let's catch our breath here and check out a few of the tracks you've been sending my way...
Title: Wrekin giant
Artiste: Dark Forest
Genre: Power Metal
Taken from: Dark Forest
Familiarity: Zero
Suggested by: mythsofmetal
Expectations: It's power metal and it's myths, so I'm going to be optimistic as he seldom leads me wrong, though once or twice he's suggested something he thought I'd like and it hasn't worked out, especially during Metal Month. Here's hoping!
Love the almost acoustic guitar opening, sort of pastoral mixed with pagan metal and reminds me a lot of eighties Iron Maiden. Powerful percussion thumping in now with electric guitar and now it's ramping up as almost a kind of celtic reel thing. Very impressed so far. Interesting vocal; sort of sounds almost female when it comes in. Lovely relaxed solo in the midsection, turns into a soaraway and gets harder and tougher and faster: this is superb stuff. Great ending too.
Conclusion: Need to hear more of these guys. That was, as His Batness would say, bitchin'!
So, Love or Hate? This has to be a
True Love. Myths does it again!
Possibility of looking into the album: 100%