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Artist: The Murder Of My Sweet |
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When
the likes of songwriter and producer Daniel Flores, guitarist Daniel
Palmqvist, bass player Johan Niemann and keyboardist Andreas Lindah come
together you sit up and take notice. The Murder Of My Sweet has
been an on off project by Flores who was waiting for the right vocalist
to complete his vision for the project and that final piece of the
puzzle comes in the form of Angelica Rylin. To
say this album blew me away from the start is an understatement, the
sheer power of Rylin’s vocals is just astounding and together with the
superb musicianship of Flores, Palmqvist, Neimann and Lindah, they have
put together a simply stunning album in 'Divanity'.
From
the opening track ‘No Evil’ the album grabs you and takes you away
on a musical journey that I haven’t felt since Nightwish’s
‘Once’, such is the power and grace of this album and Rylin will
become as much a household name as Tarja. The
album is full of tremendous anthemic metal that just exceed anything
I’ve heard in quite a while as the album continues to impress with
‘Follow The Rain’, the magnificent ‘Bleed Me Dry’ and one of my
many favourites on the album, the gigantic overture that is ‘Chemical
Attraction’. Another
of my favourite tracks on this superb album has to be the symphonic
overtones of ‘Kiss Of Death’, a real tour de force vocal performance
from Rylin’s really pushes the envelope on this one. The band
bring a little more metal to proceedings with rocking ‘One Bullet’,
a real guitar grinder this one with the backbone rhythm section keeping
everything in check. We’re
only half through this splendid opus and the album just keeps producing
titanic track after titanic track, with more superb tracks to follow
with the haunting ‘Tonight’, the majestic orchestration that is
‘Storms Of The Sea’ and the excellent ‘Destiny’. All great
tracks but the band really go all out for it with the closing tracks,
the first of these being ‘Revolution’, a thunderous mix of choral
backings with narrative parts introducing the piece before Rylin takes
over and pushes the track to great heights. Next up it's
‘Valerie’, a track that is as majestic as it is melody filled with
some stunning keyboard work from Lindah and a fantastic drum beat from
Flores as always. Leaving the best to last and leaving them wanting more are usually left to live sets, but the band have done just that with this album as the simply stunning ‘Death Of A Movie Star’, a seven minute plus epic which dips and sways throughout, as the gentle piano and Rylin start the track before it builds into a massive ensemble of keys and vocals, interwoven with some stunning guitars and a massive orchestral background. A great way to finish what is a stunning release and is a great way to start 2010 this is the bench mark album for all to follow.
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Tracklisting:
01.
No Evil
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