Thursday, March 15, 2012

Shadow's Mignon - Midnight Sky Masquerade (2009)




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Genre => Heavy Metal
Origin => Germany
Bitrate => 320


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The start of the album is immense and really kicks some ass! "A Dragon Shall Come" immediately cheers you up with driving guitar riffs and superb vocals from Roos - an absolute highlight of the album, great vocal! The main soundscape elements are the guitar riffing, the lead solo breaks and Roos's voice. Kernbach's contribution is notable but sparse and isn't "center-stage". This superb start is followed by the anthemic "A Slave to Metal", an early contender for best track of 2009, and I challenge you to listen to this without jumping up and chanting along: a feat that only the dead will achieve! The title track follows in similar fashion - it's a cracking opening to the album.
The foot then comes off the gas for the first ballad, "Goodnight Boston", a slow tempo song that begins with a pretty acoustic guitar accompaniment before other instruments join the arrangement in the latter half. "Darkness Comes to Light" and "A Beast Abandoned" pick up the pace again, more great vocals and guitar riifs + solos, plus keyboard adornments on the former, but just fail to match the brilliance of the opening three tracks.



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