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Beforce - Creation

Pretty Good Power Metal - 86%

Necroleer, August 23rd, 2005

Along with Heavenly, Distant Thunder, Seven Witches and other somewhat obscure power metal outfits, Beforce is a fairly new metal band that can definitely, in my opinion, have their name placed in the bands mentioned above. Well, let's start off with what makes this record so special...

The album begins with a short instrumental track, followed by Riding Neath The Rain, a song that pretty much sums up the band's sound: upbeat double-bass drumming, melodic and fairly intricate riffing, soaring, vibrato-laden vocals and borderline-virtuoso guitar solos. Sure, I know what you're thinking..."That's just power metal." True. HOWEVER, here's what makes this band's sound good in my eyes...no, it's not originality. Not technical, super-human abilities. It's their no-props-no-guitar-wanking-while-the-rest-of-the-band-does-fucking-nothing-and-no-keyboards sound and attitude. Let's analyze each component, shall we?

Vocals: Dani's singing is, for the most part, good. The reason for this being that his voice fits in very well with the music, although he does need to explore more of his vocal range. Let’s put it this way: it’s one of the few chinks in the otherwise shiny armor that is Beforce.

Lead guitar: Pretty damn good. Shred when he has to and lays low when he has to. As mentioned earlier, Beforce is one of those new bands whose lead guitar player doesn’t have his head up his ass. I’m sure you’ll agree that many other power metal guitarists tend to fill songs with their boring, lackluster, monotonous and uninspiring fretwork and guitar wanking. Not here. This guy saves up his energy for after bridge, complemented by the rest of the band as needed.

Rhythm guitar: Competent riffage adorns this album. You may be curious as to why this band’s also listed as Heavy Metal…the riffs speak for themselves.

Bass: Nothing too special in this department, as expected. Just does what he has to do; acts as the backbone of the rhythm section, along with the drummer and the rhythm guitarist.

Drums: Same as above; nothing to ejaculate over. The drumming is bog-standard for power metal, with it’s double bass drumming, normal time signatures and whatnot, yet still remains solid, like the rest you can expect from this album.

Overall, this very solid album (that could have been a bit better but a LOT worse) from a skilled 5-piece Spanish band known as Beforce.