I`m baaaack. You know what that means... Arguing! Yeaa you surely missed that...
I'm relatively optimistic. No 'Lord of Chaos', 'Bastards of the Machine' or 'Children of a Faceless God' Rhapsody of Fire bullshit. Cover is alright.
You wanna tell me that "Kiss of Fire", "Hell and Back", "Without You", "In My Darkest Hour" are not typical power metal bullshit (btw much worse that any of Iconoclast titles)? At least try to sound like you say something that makes sense
Cover is pretty lame for me. I mean idea is pretty cool, maybe this dark tone fits the album, but these masks look like those from Dance of Death as one of you said so. Also I just noticed that the lower face has no horns, it`s just an illusion caused by those triangles all over the centre.
I definitely would've preferred if they went with a theme that they hadn't already explored multiple times, but oh well.
You`re 100% right, I`m really dissapointed with the main theme of the lyrics. It should be something completely new, this heaven & hell stuff is getting boring.
What about Nevermore?
I don`t know, I don`t have clear opinion on this song. Somehow it`s lame and amazing at the same time...
The best parts of vocals are suddenly cut out and thrown away from melody twice. Lyrics are the worst SX lyrics I`ve seen yet. They sound cool, but those are just random sets of generic power metal words repeated way too many times. Intro is fast and nice, but very short and non-developed and if there is nothing more to it in Overture then it`s average at best. Also the introduction to the third stanza is weak.
But the instrumental part is great, solo is much better than in 95% of metal songs (Romeo is just a genius with his talent to make interesting solos), riffs of course inspired. Chorus is generic but I like it. SX is trying something new and we can hear it. Nevermore has giant potential in it but the outcome of what they`ve done with their ideas is like 5 or 6/10.
