Take What the Heavens Create

Here stands latter day Dreamtale’s most accessible, most well known, and ultimately most pop-oriented song. In fact, by the standards of most lighter power metal bands to hail from the mighty land of Finland, this has got to be among the more blatantly pop/rock oriented songs to come along in the aftermath of Nightwish’s less than auspicious union with Anette Olzon. But despite the incredibly short length and utter simplicity, “Take What The Heavens Create” is actually a boatload of fun that’s sure to have most singing along, whether they want to or not.

The format on display here is quite simple, just find a bouncy guitar groove and drum beat to match, throw a basic melody line in on the keyboards and double it with the lead guitar, and throw the same 4 chords in for the chorus that have been used by the likes of Journey and Evanescence alike (with differing arrangements of course) and just let the whole thing rip. Timo Tolkki has used a similar ploy several times in the latter days of Stratovarius to keep Euro radio on the up and up as to why power metal can have Top 40 potential when done in such ways, though he generally does it at a faster tempo.

While not resembling anything near a deep representation of musical potential, this works well for what it is, though it feeds into the general pop-heavy character of the full length album “Phoenix”, which is generally greeted with mixed reviews from those who’ve followed the band since the early 2000s. The chief draw here are the vocals, which do bear a resemblance to those heard on “Ocean’s Heart”, and that’s generally good enough for me, though I would still argue that this is among the weaker songs to appear on said album.