EMBERSTORM - review added 4th February 2010
Album Review: Memories Of Time (2009)
For fans of: Symphonic Rock... and power metal subtleties
EmberStorm started coming together some time in 2006. Formed by Peter Strömberg, who plays guitar, bass and adds keyboard arrangements, the band is completed by Peter Selin on vocals. Guests on Memories Of Time include Anders Janfalk, Eric Levie, Johnny Berglund and more.
Considering the album was produced by Peter Strömberg, a man with little experience behind the mixing desk, the result is really rather good. This is a hugely professional sounding release that could easily come from a proper label. Even the cover art and overall packaging doesn't lack for style and quality.
The music is splendid in places too. This isn't by any means a perfect release but, when it gets it right, it gets it very right indeed. The sound varies between epically symphonic, majestically heavy rock, thrash metal and more. It touches on all sorts of backwater genres, tying their sounds together with real panache. Peter Selin has a subdued version of a proper loud power metal voice. His vocals have a soul to them that's often missing from this sort of music.
Top entry is the surprisingly progressive 'Tides Of No Belief', although most tracks offer something that lodges in the mind. Memories Of Time is definitely an album to listen to as a whole, not as individual tracks. It's worth the investment of time though as there are magnificent moments throughout.
Check out... All of it in one big hit.
Track List:
01. Never Ending
02. Elegy For Lady Servile
03. Cursed For Eternity
04. Horizon's Call
05. Day Of Destiny
06. The Winter's Night Of Fate
07. Emberstone
08. Tides Of No Belief
09. Out Of Reach
Artist's website(s): EmberStorm , MySpace
