BLACK MASQUERADE „Spread Your Wings”

Music: Heavy Metal
Website: www.blackmasquerade.com
Duration: over 40 minut

I have honor to introduce you the next Japanese band – BLACK MASQUERADE. The line-up of team is Takashi Sakagucchi (Gucchi) – vocal, Yoshihiro Nitta – guitars, Yasutoshi Haitani (Hai-Bo) – bass, Kayo Ikeda (Kayo-Chan) – keys as well as Hideki Moriuchi (Ninja-Moriuchi) – drums. Oh… I waded through Asiatic words! This professionally given album includes 10 songs, in this are 3 instrumental songs.

No doubt the music of team is heavy metal. The heavy metal is on the professional level, classic, without needless traces of different musical species. Though I think that the team would can use bit of folk samurai influences, because it would add the music of originality (which today is very hard), and the fact that they are Asiatic would can more profitably influence for their works. – Misters, you do not cut off yourselves from your roots! This is such my subjective advice.

Let's there now we occupy ourselves the music from “Spread Your Wings”. Before I mentioned the music from the disc is 100% classic power/heavy metal what execute the bands of type HELLOWEEN, JUDAS PRIEST or HAMMERFALL. That is BLACK MASQUERADE proposes us very dynamic and enough aggressive metal but both the very melodious dose of metal. The quick rhythmical and enough hard guitar's riffs with a lot of quantity dynamic and melodious solo parties create the basis here. The strong work of rhythmical section is the propulsion obviously. The rhythmical section provide the quick tempo almost unceasingly. This tempo lets take breath musicians only here and there (mostly in the instrumental songs). The supplement of these very lively arrangements is the melodious and the emphasizing parties of keys which add the bits of darkness and melancholy. The melodious with high tone singing sounds on of front of the whole (in places in style of e.g.. Michael Kiske from immortal HELLOWEEN). The singing is helped by equally falsetto backing singers .

In the whole material lasts over 40 minutes! I would like to add that the team with Metal Master Records released the DVD with concert's song “The Guardian”, which it portrays the atmosphere before the show and the very hot atmosphere from the show from Korea. The intro of DVD contains the photos from the show together the song “Into The Sky” sounding in background. However the lining in the final inscriptions made the song “Prisoner Of Dark”. The material is excellent, but unfortunately it last little over 10 minutes only.

note: 6.0/10