METAL MAIDENS

Reviewed by Toine Van Poorten

Forgotten Tales – All The Sinners

This is the second album of the Canadian fantasy power metal band, consisting of Pat Vir on bass, Martin Desharnais on guitars, Cédrick Prévost on drums, Frédérick Desroches on keyboards and Sonia Pineault on vocals. Robyn Roy provides the backing vocals on this strong album, that contains ten new songs, with a total length of about fifty minutes. Opener “The Hideaway” is a great bombastic, short intro. It gives you the feeling, that something is about to happen. And then in a flash, we hear the first notes of “Lady Of The Forrest”. A very catching song with lots of double bass drum beats and fast guitarwork. Their sound can be described as a mix of bands like BLIND GUARDIAN, NIGHTWISH (because of the female vocals) and GAMMA RAY. “All The Sinners” is another uptempo song, and “Wind Oh Wind” is the first powerful ballad of the album. “The Message” is an ultrafast, instrumental track and although there are no vocals, it’s still one of the highlights on the CD for me. Next to the rather lengthy “Three Wishes”, which is also very exciting. Again we’re really impressed by the new album, so now it’s your time to become part of the tale. I hope, that they will broaden their horizons soon, because there’s a huge market for bands sounding like this, over here. I also would like to mention the great CD cover. Actually, the whole story of the CD was compressed into one drawing here, which was very well done indeed. My compliments!

Note : 8/10