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(Sphinx) - "Ghost"

Reviewed by:

"Philip Wooldridge"- (Ravenheart Music)

Genre:
(Female Fronted) {Rock/Symphonic-Metal}-(Music)
Country:
Russia
Length:
NA
Release Date:
2008
Band Members: Andrey “Andersen“ Varenik - bass-guitar, vocals Andrey “Chronos“ Potapov - guitars
  Anton “Lie“ Chetvergov - guitar Vyacheslav “Pirahna“ Kozlov - drums
  Helena Eskina - vocals Natalya Telyh - vocals
     
Track Listing: 1.)-Wanderer
9.)-Ghost
  2.)-Valley of Dreams  
  3.)-Ocean  
  4.)- Hurricane  
  5.)-Fate  
  6.)-On the wings of the wind. Part 1 - Day  
  7.)-On the wings of the wind. Part 2 - Night  
  8.)-All in the past  

Review:

Coming from Russia, not Egypt, Sphinx perform romantic symphonic metal, a blend of Wildpath, ELP’s ‘Pirates’, Al Stewarts ‘Roads to Moscow’ and the most romantic metal album of all time, Within Temptation’s Silent Force. Each song is intended to be a soundtrack to an imaginary film, so just dream up your favourite heroes from Johnny Depp to Errol Flynn and let Sphinx take you away to a land of castles, knights, princesses, pirates, pharaohs, Romans, Vikings or anything else you heart desires. The orchestrations by guitarist Andrey “Chronos” Potapov and bassist Andrey “Andersen” Varenik are simply stupendous even though they were presumably done on a computer, you’d never tell, the album sounds a million dollars but was probably recorded for a song. They are fronted by two delicious heroines with gorgeous semi and fully operatic voices, Helena Eskina and Natalya Telyh, helped by Andrey’s excellent voice. The lyrics are in Russian, but it does not matter a jot, in fact it might spoil it, the story in your head not matching the lyrics, like when your favourite book gets turned into a film, it’s rarely as you imagined. This is an absolute dream to listen to, just lie back, close your eyes and get carried away on the tide of this up-tempo, epic and enchanting music. This is one of those albums you don’t want to finish, thankfully they have also released a new EP in English called ‘White Moon’ that you can download for free from their website, http://sphinxmetal.com/ . The Ghost album itself can be carried away from the Fono shop http://www.shop.fono.ru/ and EBay (it can also be translated as Phantom rather than Ghost). Now if you excuse me, I want to know the outcome of the final showdown between Johnny and Errol on the bridge of the Flying Dustman, a swashbuckling 9.5 out of 10.

 

 

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