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Finally
i have in my hand another great release from Dwell Records.
This time is a double disc tribute album for Iron Maiden,
the leaders of New Wave of British Heavy Metal. So the album
begins with Steel Prophet and Ides of March/
Purgatory, an average cover good enough to open this tribute,
then we have Vital Remains and The Trooper,
but in a more death version, actually the music is almost
the same, but the vocals are death metal ones. Then we have
Angel Corpse and Genghis Khan,
but i don't know why a band to record an instrumental track.
Anyway way, after that, Solitude Aeturnus come
with Hallowed be thy name and the doom metal rise up
the horns for Iron Maiden. I had heard the debut album
from New Eden, which released via a Greek Metal
Label; i didn't expect to hear such a good cover for Phantom
of the Opera. Even if the band is a groove death metal
act, the vocalist did a very good work and only the music
is a little bit more extreme that the original. Then another
great surprise from Opeth and Remember Tomorrow,
for sure with this cover you can cry again after the first
time with Iron Maiden, you can't say a lot of things
Opeth is a great band and wait for their new
album through Roadrunner Records. As far as Morgion
with To Tame a Land, they didn't impress me, i expected
a better cover from them. Another highlight from this tribute
is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner from Opera
IX, with extreme and clean female vocals, a great
effort and the first disc close with Absu and Transylvania,
only these two words says a lot. For the second disc, i don't
know why but most of the songs there aren't my favorites,
except the Wrathchild that we can hear it from Acheron,
2 Minutes to Midnight from the Deceased
and Children of the Damned from the unknown Diesel
Machine. Any way, to close this review, i am satisfied
with the work from Dwell Records in this tribute.
SCORE
out of 9.2/10 Antonis Maglaras
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