Forever Slave
Tales For Bad Girls
Review by Gary Hill
By now the whole epic metal band with female lead singer and lots of symphonic elements is becoming a cliché. There’s still a bit of mileage left in it but most of the originality has been sucked clean by steady repetition. So, this group has a definite disadvantage coming in here. They manage to create as sound that works quite well. There is definitely quite a bit of monolithic tendencies here, but it’s a real tribute to the group that the CD still manages to entertain. Don’t expect any new ground broken. This group is pretty generic, but they are also quite strong. The genre might be dying in terms of new ideas, but the recycled visions you find here are still just plain killer.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2008 Volume 6 at lulu.com/strangesound.
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