under-rated album by improving band - The consensus among reviewers was that this album was a step back for Dark Moor.The consensus, as always, was wrong. The hack reviewers were caught up in the goth-inspired female-vocalist fad that went through the metal world a few years ago, as well as being afflicted with a condition common to metal reviewers throughout the years: an inability to understand singing (most metalheads are guitarists). Some of them actually thought the awful she-wailer that held Dark Moor back on their early albums could sing, and were going to attack this album regardless of how good it was, to show how enlightened and politically correct they are, I guess.In any event, the classical compositions are not quite as strong on this album as they were on the early Dark Moor material, that much, at least, the hacks got right. But the guitars are much better, they are much more heavy in tone, and the vocals are a vast improvement merely by being average. So, overall, this one is about equal in quality to the early Dark Moor. Just different. Faster, more power-metal genre-standard, but more consistent and less annoying. Not a masterpiece but very good. Recommended to fans of the genre.
Innovative very intriging - These guys dont make bad musuic. I give this album 4 and a half stars. Its almost perfect but there are 2 songs that dont fit on the album. Once again though i only found 2 songs that have women vocals. I dont know what happened but there older stuff was all about wild vocals which you see in this album also. They also use a lot of violins and keyboard mastery at its best. Dark moor the more i here them they are really maturing a lot as a band that will keep on making great albums. Listen to the solos also some of them are super crazy like the wild that i was talking about. This band somewhat reminds me that in a band you dont always have to play the same jhandra its good to explore out of the box a little such as they do in a few of there songs. I would check this one out if your a hardcore fan of dark moor you have to own this album....