Review Summary: If you do the math, it equals good music.
Without a great singer, Silverlane would be lost in generic platitudes, but their vocal presence provides a door to inspiration. Tommy Klossek commands the mic assuredly, sounding like Jorn meets Avantasia, and the music follows suit. This is a melody driven album with simple, stomping tunes that shine from excellent singing and catchy choruses. Genre-wise, it’s a mix of power/symphonic/progressive metal ideas, but not firmly in any camp; it sounds like the recycling of various metal bands, giving shades of every conventional, cheesy metal album you’ve heard in the last ten years. It’s on the arena filling side of metal: heavy, predictable, but pleasing riffs that sound large due to the production.
Instrumentation is simple, both riffs and drums, and intentionality or otherwise, III - Inside Eternal Infinity reeks of a lack of creativity - they play it extremely safe. Songs are consistently well-written, but there’s little here that doesn’t sound recycled from the previous song. With not much nuanced substance to dig into, you’re left with a stably effective, and repetitive album, with a retro heavy metal vibe in a good way. It’s a straightforward, appealing album, but it hits hard where it counts. Take it or leave it, but I’m not leaving this one.
