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Review:
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My brother in arms Dave reviewed the fantastic Narwhal
Tusk album a short while ago, and here we have their friends
Evdemonium with their own début opus. Their style is rather
different, sci-fi themed gothic metal with loads of terrific
electronica that floats around bands like Lacuna Coil, Elysion,
Delain and Lahannya, but with bursts of power metal that
pushes them towards Nightwish and Dawn of Destiny at times.
They are fronted by the lovely Anastasia Kalinichenko who
has a superb clear powerful voice. After the burbling electronica
of the intro, the suitably titled 'The Future is Coming',
they open up with a quartet of superb catchy anthemic rockers
including title track 'Web Around Us' (live video on Female
Voices blog) that motor along at a cracking pace, packed
full of subtle variations and all sorts of ingenious ingredients
making for an absorbing listening experience. The second
half sees them moving towards power metal with the instrumental
'Millenium', followed by the more symphonic mini epic 'Starlight',
the powerful strutting 'Total Destruction', the moody and
magnificent 'I'll Search for You', and ending with the dramatic
electronica outro 'After The End'. Production is very good
and powerful, perhaps a touch more vocal would have been
nice, and all the performances are most professional. For
some baffling reason they have decided to make this little
beauty available free of charge from their website, http://evdemonium.com/
, so what are you waiting for, but before you dash off
I'd better give you the score, a futuristic 8.75 out of
10.
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