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I'm a huge powermetal fan, especially finnish powermetal, bands like Thunderstone, Sonata Arctica and Dreamtale (let's not mention Stratovarius here, because they suck) Twilighting is one of the newer finnish powermetal bands and Delirium Veil is their debut album. From the booklet you can see that the band members are very young, but they sure dont have any lack of talent I can tell you.

Twilightning has the same trademark finnish powermetal sound and style like those bands I mentioned earlier, but theres something more here, the singer is one of the best ones around,
not Halford, but a very, very good powermetal singer, he is able to add huge amounts of feeling in his vocals. You can hear the excitement of this young band from the very first seconds of the first song, and it carries on through the album.

The keyboards on the album are brilliant, sometimes when I listen it I just focus on the keyboards
and listen all those beautiful background melodies. This cd gets me into good mood, makes me want to scream and start pounding my fists in the air. At the same time its somehow relaxing to listen this, it makes me forget everything else.

The ballads on powermetal albums are usually a little too cheesy, its almost true with Delirium Veil also, but the only ballad on this cd gets a little heavier near the end, and lyrics arent nearly as cheesy as some Hammerfall ballads have. All other songs except Under somber skies (the ballad)
and the last song Masked ball dalliance, are 5 star songs, 4 stars to those two.

So in conclusion I can say that Finnish powermetal scene has another great band. Last year we had Thunderstone's debut album, and it was a nearly 5 star album also,
earlier this year Sonata Arctica's Winterhearts guild, also a nearly 5 star album, then Dreamtale's Ocean's heart, well, ok that one was a 4 star album. How much more can
I ask for!

Official homepage: www.twilightning.net -- Some samples available.

Hayke / September 2003

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