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Forgotten Tales - The Promise

A new power metal band from Canada, playing epic metal with female vocals. Their influences are basically coming from the European scene and bands such as Stratovarius and Helloween to name just a couple. For once these guys are actually good. They've got a singer with a very good voice, still rather raw but nevertheless good and both the guitars and the rhythm section are playing good. This is their debut album and it's obvious that they haven't reached their peek yet. There's still much of their talent left unexplored. Now this is actually a good thing if you consider that the album is actually good. There's potential in these guys and if you allow me to risk a prediction I'd say we'd pretty soon listen more from them and from a decent label. They need some work concerning their arrangements and the singer has to learn to use her voice a bit better, but the songwriting is good and the musicianship is even better. Being a self financed album the production is far from perfect, but again it's pretty decent for an independent effort. Now there's a band with talent and one that leaves hopes for something better in the near future.

Note : 7/10