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Line-up:
Andy
B. Franck - Vocals
Torsten Ihlenfeld - Guitars
Milan Loncaric - Guitars
Andreas Mailander - Bass
Dieter Bernert - Drums
Release Date:
30 June, 2003
Tracklist:
1. Highs Without Lows
2. Doorway To Survive
3. The Leading
4. Nunca Nos Rendimos
5. Fading
6. Shivas Tears
7. Fornever
8. Soul Temptation
9. Dying Outside
10. To The Head
11. Rising
12. Amarillo (Bonus Track)
Website:
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Surprise Of June 2003
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It is a fact that I was longing to listen to the new Brainstorm album especially after their
previous Metus Mortis which
although is an excellent album, is a step below Soul Temptation!
Anyone who has listened to
Metus Mortis maybe
will think that Im exaggerating, but I do not tell nothing more or less
than the truth. The new release of Brainstorm is the album that every heavy metal band wants to release and for sure it will make Brainstorm even a bigger band and
more popular.
Personally, I was surprised when Ive listened to Soul Temptation. I knew that Brainstorm could release a better album than
Metus Mortis, but I was a little bit aloof. So, when I pushed
the play on the
CD player all my compunctions were gone away! Maybe they decided to release the best album of their carrier (?), so far and they just make it happen! Brainstorm have a lot of capabilities and they manage to release an album that will make them shine
among the other good bands of heavy/power genre.
I think that is impossible for someone not to be surprised when he will listen to
Soul Temptation. Heavy guitars, pounding rhythms, excellent vocal melodies (it seems that Andy B. Franck -
vocals, has dovetail with the band), powerful and solid production and of course plenty of inspiration! That is the section where Brainstorm hack to differ among the other heavy metal bands. The songs of the album are brilliant, and the band showed us that fit as a flea!
The opener track of the album is the mid-tempo Highs Without Lows that plugs you in, from the very start! Then the
spree is about to begin! We
listen to (Im referring to the songs in random order) the grotesquery astonishing homonymous
Soul Temptation (the last part of the trilogy which is called, Trinity Of Lust - the other songs are:
Shivas Tears, and
Fornever), the up-tempo powerful
Dying Inside, the heavy melodious
The Leading, the high-powered
To The Head, the catchy
Fading, the mid-tempo with the highly melodic chorus
Nunca Nos Rendimos, the heavy/power
Doorway To Survive and the harmonius hymn
Rising!
Maybe I have written a lot of things, but I was so excited while I was listening to the album and it seems that I
couldnt bottle up myself! Personally, I consider Soul Temptation as one of the best releases for this year so far and of course the best album that Brainstorm have released
to date. If you like Brainstorm, then do not have any doubts for buying or not this album. Just do it. If you happen to buy albums only
from the big bands cause you may believe that they are only the qualitative ones, then I must tell you that you sleep like a top! Apart from that, what is that thing that makes a
band big? By any chance an outstanding album or maybe some excellent albums that a band releases from year to year? Or maybe the superb live shows of that band?
Lets think about the meaning of some words
if we want to be totally righteous. Brainstorm have taken the way to the top and it is impossible something to
put them off! Do not miss the chance to listen to a really heavy and power album that will make many bands of this genre
twitter!!! This is truly a soul temptation or should I called it better an ear temptation?!!
by Thanos Aggelakis 9/10 | 