InnerWish

I have an album by them somewhere, I'll give it a listen.

Edit: I just listened to the first two tracks off of their album "Waiting for the Dawn" and I'm not a fan. Bad production, bad vocals, and generic happy power metal.
 
They seem to be making use of some Greek influences on their music (intro to Gates of Fire), which sounds pretty cool. That helps set them apart. Otherwise I think they'd be fairly standard power metal.

The singer has a cool voice, too.

They aren't grabbing me immediately, but I don't hear anything that I dislike. :)
 
I have liked this band for a long time, again when i was in Greece i had a chance to hear them preform, and they are pretty good live.
 
Bumpity-bump-bump....

GREECE'S INNERWISH TO RELEASE NEW SELF-TITLED ALBUM IN MARCH; ARTWORK REVEALED

"....Greek melodic metallers, InnerWish, will release their new album, entitled InnerWish. on March 18th in Europe and North America via Ulterium Records. The artwork for the album was created by Felipe Machado Franco (Blind Guardian, Rhapsody Of Fire, Xandria) and the design was done by Jan Yrlund (Korpiklaani, Apocalyptica, Manowar)....

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...The band comments on the new album: "This is the first album with our new lineup, and we hope this lineup will be unchanged for many years since we now feel stronger, more confident and sure about ourselves than ever before. For those reasons we chose InnerWish as the title of our new album, because it represents us in the most exact way. We are very proud of this album. It might sound very common, but it's the truth for us: this is the best InnerWish album so far! Heavy, aggressive, modern, melodic and diverse at the same time, with all the classical InnerWish elements, combined with some new ones. It might have been 6 years since the release of 'No turning back' but all the difficult times we've been through made us stronger and the result is this new, fifth album of InnerWish. We are back for good!"

More details about the album will be announced early next year...."
 
This is gonna have to go some to beat off shoot band Diviner's new album. I have faith though 'cause Innerwish are a super band. I hope the new singer is as good as Yiannis 'cause he's kicking ass big time on the Diviner disk.

The Diviner singer, Yiannis Papanikolaou, only sang on the very first InnerWish album in 1998 (Waiting For The Dawn). The album was badly produced and I don't remember being that impressed with the vocals, mostly because of the huge accent I think. The guy improved A LOT since then cause he rules now in Diviner.

Looks like the InnerWish singer on the last 3 albums, which I really like, was Babis Alexandropoulos, while the new guy looks to be George Eikosipentakis.