BLACK MASQUERADE „Holy and Bright”

Music: Power Metal
Website: www.blackmasquerade.com
Duration: 48:28 minutes (10 tracks)
Country: Japan

This next material of Japanese Power Metal horde fell in my hand. I noticed that in country of Blooming Cherry-tree's a music from under sign of Heavy/Power Metal is quite well. I have not any gravamens to BLACK MASQUERADE, hahaha… All is made professionally. Maybe just the vocal would be a little bit more loudly. But the high vocal's colour and the vocalist's accent during singing English texts is very well.

The content of album obviously includes energetic Power Metal full of quick and sharp guitar's subjects as well as predatory or melodious solos mostly placed in quick rhythms. Though slower accents, sometimes balladic or repleted of neoclassical breath apear there.

The tracks – in spite of their characteristic heaviness and dynamics – are very melodious and every of them possess characteristic refrain easily falling in ears or musical accent. This causes a head begins shaking rhythmically, hahaha…

The last piece “Sanoramyun” can be curiosity because is in Korean language (!?), I think so.

note: 7.0/10

Tracklist

01. Jack The Ripper
02. Free Forever
03. Don't Forget
04. Follow Me
05. Silent Scene
06. Hell's Gate
07. Crying For Free
08. Go Your Way
09. Iliya
10. Sanoramyun

Line-up

Kenji Hayashi: Vocal
Shinji Nagano: Bass
Yoshiro Nitta: Guitar
Shigenori Oya: Drums