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FAR AND FOREVERHEAVEN RAINMoonwolf CDHeaven Rain is new promising young band comeing from Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska/BiH if you prefer it that way. This piece of metal, titled "Far and Forever" is their debut album, and it's for sure that they've gone forever with this one. Style of this band is a mixture of this and that, but can be best described as Melodic/Power/Progressive metal. Thing that was first to grab my attention were the keyboards. If I'm not mistaken, Goran Bistinac, who plays keyboards is also the man who formed this band few years ago. And for sure he knows his job, keyboards on this one are just fantastic, not only in terms of playing skills, but the sound, the tone of it, it was simply the thing that I noticed first and liked the most. Far from it that that is the only good thing. Riffs are fast, a lot of orchestrations, power and progressive influences, change of pace.. simply great. Second thing that stands out are vocals. Done by Bozidar Sevic, they are characteristic, unlike many other's, he dosn't over-sing or strain his voice, here you won't find so much usual high pitched vocals, but his tone, and warmth in his voice makes it quite characteristic, and although it may sound strange at first, soon you will realise how great his voice is, and how good it's tuned with the music. Album dosn't last long, it has several instrumental songs, and you wont find any moment that sounds boring. There is not any point in talking about skills of musicans from this band, it's quite easy to see that thay have high skill and tremendous amount of tallent. If you ask me, the best feature of the band is songwriting, they just know how to make a good song. It's easy to see various influences, from fast power through catchy melodic and prog metal, but far from this being a copycat of other bands work, this album is way above that. There are not some big downsides of this masterpiece, you could say that production can be improved, but when you have in mind from where this band comes from... well if you are not familiar with metal scene in this area, I will just say there aren't many albums that can beat this one when it comes to production. And you have to leave something for the next album as well :). To finish it, I will just say that this is certanly one very promising young band, and if everything clicks in a right way, bright future awaits them. One of the best debut albums I heard. Nemanja Vasiljevic (8) |
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