The Promise

Forgotten Tales is a rather decent power metal band, but they can be forgotten for the most part. I think one of the things that ruins this band is the fact that it's already been done. One thing that is kind of cool about Forgotten Tales is the female singer. If your thinking Nightwish, you got another thing coming. This female singer takes a rather regular tone of singing, rather then the opera style that is seen in some other power metal bands with female singers. The best way to describe and comapre Forgotten Tales is simple! Song writing and sound of Kamelot mixed with female vocals.

Probably the downfall of this album is the actually singing. The female artist has a nice, beautiful voice. However, sometimes she hits a lot of low notes for a female singer, which sounds really bad. Like I mentioned before, it's not opera style, just straight out singing. The reason why I don't like this all that much is because she sounds like she has balls. Honestly she sounds like a female Kai Hansen. You can best see this on the song Cold Heart, which sounds pretty close to a Gamma Ray song I know. Another thing I got from the singing is the way words are pronounced. I instantly thought that this band was from France. Well I was wrong, there from Quebec, still it's a french speaking city. You can tell by the way she pronouces q's and r's that she has a french accent.

As for the guitars and drumming, hey that's all good. At some parts it is very melodic and smoothing. Other times there are fast beats and the typical power chord choruses seen in power metal. There are a lot of awsome riffs on this album, like the intro to Endless Dream and the main riff for Gates Beyond Reality. Also like I mentioned above, it is similiar to Kamelot. Also sounds a lot like Blind Guardian (speed wise) and just about any other power metal band. Solo's are also up there with the riffs. There all good just repeditive and boring at some points. I would recommend this to any power metal fan. But if you don't dig the fantasy stuff, don't even bother. This album is based around fantasy with fantasy lyrics, album cover, etc. They even have a flute intro on the song Far Away which reminds me of some medevil setting. So if you are into fantasy this album is for you, if not -it's decent power metal, but nothing to get excited about!