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Last
year i had receive the first demo from Skyward a band
that formed back in 2000. The band comes from Finland and
as you can expect their work was really good and it has quality
music in these four tracks. So with only one demo Skyward
achieve to have a deal with Thundering Records and
before some weeks they released their debut album with the
simple title "Skyward" and they have include
nice tracks and more than forty minutes of pure atmospheric
metal with a lot of melodies. Sanna hasn't the typical
atmospheric voice but she gives another way to sing the songs
and with more feelings but also with some classical elements.
I won't stay only at her because the whole band did their
best to record this album and their compositions are well
worked with interesting ideas and their music structure is
really good. The thing that impressed me was also the thing
that Skyward don't use keyboards in their music, they
play atmospheric metal with only the drums, guitars and bass.
This thing gives a heavier sound but in the same time the
band built the songs like that in order to be melodic too.
If you have already heard the demo you won't find all the
tracks in the new one, the band decide to include only two
tracks from their demo: "Guardian" and "Vaya
con Diablo". If you are into this kind of metal for
sure you will adore the stuff from Skyward and i am
proud too because i have begin to follow the band from their
first step and now we are in the second one and i believe
i will have the opportunity to hear their next step. Thanks
a lot Ville you rock.
SCORE
out of 8.7/10 Antonis Maglaras
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