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Review:
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AThis Ukrainian band, founded by guitarist Artem Mokry,
has existed in various forms since 2003 until eventually
becoming Uncreated Light; this is the debut release under
that name. They play an Edenbridge/Nightwish hybrid, symphonic
gothic with an injection of power metal, veering towards
modern Rhapsody at times. Layer upon layer of rich orchestral
keyboards and rippling piano are laid upon a bed of guitar
riffage. Floating above this assemblage is the enchanting
Eldiva’s (great name) angelic pitch perfect operatic voice.
You get 10 songs in Ukrainian plus the first four tracks
repeated in English. The album has a really nice balance,
after two up-tempo numbers you get a ballad, with an instrumental
to round things off. All the tracks are immense, but faves
include the title track ‘Whom Should I Blame’, ‘Burning
Hearts’ (video on the Female Voices Blog) and ‘Sweet Capture’,
together with the three delicious power ballads, ‘Searching
for the Destiny’, ‘Legend’, and ‘The Mighty of this World’.
The instrumental sounds like Rick Wakeman playing piano
with Rhapsody, strangely the keys player isn’t credited,
it could be Artem or the unknown guy on the video, whoever
it is can really tickle those ivories. The sound is generally
good, but perhaps a touch trebly, you may want to twiddle
your tone knob. I would not blame any symphonic metal fan
for liking this, their Myspace is http://www.myspace.com/uncreatedlightua
and it is available from various stores such as http://www.musearecords.com/index.php
, a most enlightening 8.5 out of 10.
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