The album is well played, however when you look at the riffing and melodies behind orchestral voices it is just your average power metal album. The "classical" arrangement is superimposed on the guitars in a way that it either plays the same melody (boring) or goes its own way without adding anything really to the song as a whole. Back to the guitars and the riffing there is nothing really noteworthy here : no intricacies, no particular examples of virtuosy, not even some interesting syncopations that would somehow pique the attention of the listener. The scarcity of original ideas here is truly alarming. Boring, overestimated album that made the band's fortune (reputation wise) because it was released during the hype of the power metal genre in the late 90s.
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