Gaia II: La voz dormida

After hearing the happy melody presented in the single “La posada de los muertos” I was wondering if all the album was going to be like that, then I saw the track listing and even dough I saw some kind of titles that actually can be metal songs like “El callejon del infierno” (Hell’s Alley) there are others like “Hoy toca ser feliz” (Today is Time to be Happy)… What can you expect from an album that contains a song called like that.

Well, when I actually get the CD in my computer I discover it was actually better than I expect, some songs actually reminds me to Finisterra and guess what? They remember to use guitars this time. The album stills manages some excessive use of keyboards, flutes and violin, but hey this is folk/hard rock (metal is still too much to ask) so it is ok, at least for me.

What I liked most of the album is the fact that this don’t entirely suck so maybe their next effort could actually be heavy enough to not make use the skipped button so often.
In the good songs there La voz dormida (a Satania like song), En nombre de Dios (really nice tune and nice lyrics), Diabolus in musica (catchy chorus without sounding mainstream), Aquelarre (actually sound metal and the female vocals are great),Desde mi cielo(a ballad that rules big time).

The rest fall in absence of metal(again) and while some are kind of catchy (La posada de los muertos comes to mind), the excessive cheesiness and the fact they don’t have nothing to do with the album’s “concept” drags them to this category.

So Mago have to concentrate more in songs like La voz dormida (the best by far) and less in songs like La posada de los muertos. Al least this give a ray of hope that the next album will be great.