Reviews
2007-01-06
German power metallers Saidian's second release is a typical melodic German album – heavy, highly melodic, well played, and very much retro in character. Of you like these trademarks in a band's music, you're in for a treat here.
After the keyboard oriented intro, the first track – "Ride On A Phoenix" starts things out with a bang, crunchy sound that sits in well with the well played music, and high soaring vocals with a good range, mostly the track reminded me of fellow countrymen
Edguy, which is always a good thing for a melodic metal band, great song overall.
"Praise The Lord" sounds like a Christian metal anthem, but it's actually quite the opposite, a strong hard rocking track that preaches to leave organized religion and find your own spiritual self in life, nice message, and a good track. Again, the band members are real pros and it shows in the music.
"See The Light" is the one of the only missteps here for me, you see… I hate ballads, and this is one. But the band quickly corrects that with the next piece – "Never Surrender" – serious hard rocking metal with some catchy riffs thrown in the mix.
More than anything, this is retro melodic metal that just feels mature and well put together, it feels like veteran metal musicians are behind it and they know that the album is about is making good, melodic, and especially fun-to-listen-to metal, nothing more, and it works
Alon Miasnikov
