The Storyteller - Sacred Fire

Published March 01 2015

*=Staff's pick	As I Die One Last Stand Sacred Fire Ferryman Serpent Eyes Sons Of The North* In Search For Treasures, Stones And Gold Coming Home The Army Of Southerfell* Curse Of The Seven Seas Let Your Spirit Fly God Of War

Genre	Power Metal	L-G Persson	Vocals
Tracks	12	Jacob Wennerqvist	Guitar
Running time	52 Min.	Marcus Backlund	Guitar
Label	Black Lodge Records	Henrik Brannerydh	Bass
Release	27 February 2015	Martin Hjerpe	Drums
Country	Sweden	-	Keyboard
Producer	The Storyteller
Similar artists	---

Initially released in certain territories via Dark Legacy Music on November 28th 2014.

After being on hiatus earlier for well over a half decade, Sacred Fire marks The Storyteller's sixth album in total and its second effort since the band's return in 2013 with the album Dark Legacy. This Swedish unit seemed to have the road to success already sealed and delivered with its debut during the power metal wave. For various reasons things obviously really didn't pan out the way expected and one reason being that the first wave more or less self executed due to its surging amount of bands in the genre.

The Storyteller mainly plays a kind of easy-going melodic power metal with a rather clear heavy metal appearance involved in a number of songs too. I don't know if this coming part really makes any sense at all, but I hope that you get the point when I label L-G Persson as basically a typical power metal singer, but without him using high-pitched vocals too repeatedly. An input of a few medieval elements also cements the status of them being an act that follows the water to the seas and this unit never really made themselves a name on the scene by coming out extremely powerful, but more traditional with an urge to present a catchy overall performance.

Still to this very day, all these signs are highly evident and focus is definitely set for melodies and building room for harmonic guitar play. The songs are in a way a little recognizable when looking at the band's previous work, but the guys have still managed to come out with some new things to make themselves current and not a complete replica of the past. I don't see this record as something utterly impressive, but a pair of songs indeed has the capacity to take this record to a pretty good outcome after all.

See also review of: Underworld , Crossroad

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	4	6	6	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe