Tales of Ancient Prophecies

As I first got into power metal I, like most power metal fans, stumbled upon the more popular and well known bands at the start like Rhapsody, Helloween, and Hammerfall, and I felt that each had their own unique and stylistic sound to their music, but both bands I have found certain holes and spots for improvement. It was all until I began searching deeper into the realms of power metal itself trying to find the golden sound until I found this incredibly new band, Twilight Force. As I first saw the album cover, I automatically assumed another Rhapsody or Power Quest with very fast beats and symphonic chorus' in every song along with a keyboard solo somewhere in there, but once I began to listen to the first track, Enchanted Dragon Of Wisdom, I was incredibly convinced of being wrong and rather in the moment of awe and amazement. This is mainly because of the fact it sounded rather original with each instrument having its own unique sound and contribution to the songs.

The instrument that really caught my attention was without a doubt the guitar. Simply because of the flawless sound it gave off in my ears with the amazing guitar solos in each song. Reasons why the solos are of such a big deal here are because that this band is incredibly fresh with this being their first album to be released and the fact that the guitarist has such a talent with clean sweep picking, melodies, and riffing just completely blew me away. With the combination of the keyboards adding an enchanting atmosphere and the drums adding tons of flashy, speedy sounds to stack up with the epic sounds this album just completely exemplifies a nearly perfect album.

The only part of the album which has not really given any major impact to the music has to be the tracks with only dialogue. In a way the dialogue-only tracks sound just slightly cheesy as if they were ripped from some fan-made remake of Lord of the Rings. However, the tracks like that were only to add the epic and medieval mood and style to the whole album so other than that this album is stunning in all corners with each track giving its own personal mood and feeling.

At last, I've saved my view on the vocals for last for a good reason. The singer in this band really gives the heart and soul of each song simply because of the fact he has an incredible vocal range of the combination of voices like ZP Theart and Fabio Lione and a very responsible use of his range as well. This simply means that in each track depending on the tempo and dynamics is how he sings and this simply shows that he has a very large capability of controlling his vocal range which is the true key to a masterful and impressive vocalist, especially for a band that just got started recording. Overall, for a band this new and fresh to barely release their first album and possess so much talent and effort means that we can only expect better in the future for this band and this album really trademarks a complete example of what I've been searching for a while as a golden album by combining all the top and vital keys needed to craft a masterful power metal album.