Assailant - Wicked Dream

Published March 02 2008

*=Staff's pick	A Day Tomorrow* Wicked Dream The Sin Fade Away* …From The Hour Of Birth Catch 22* Soul Degenerate Evolution Of The Wind The Cell Eternal Instincts

Genre	Power/Prog/Death Metal	Peter Sundquist	Vocals
Tracks	11	Oskar Norberg	Guitar
Runningtime	50 Min.	Marcus Sundbom	Guitar
Label	Dockyard 1	Joakim Jonsson	Bass
Release	24 March 2008	Patrik Larsson	Drums
Country	Sweden	Peder Sandström	Keyboard
Similar artists	In Flames, Nevermore, Nocturnal Rites

Here we have the second album from the young Swedish band Assailant. A band that feature the youngest of the Norberg brothers (Nocturnal Rites, Savage Circus, Persuader), Oskar, on guitar. The music sounds like a cross between, surprise surprise, Nocturnal Rites and In Flames even though those two bands are in a league above Assailant at the moment. There are plenty of well written songs on here and the production is excellent. Then why isn't the grade higher for the album you might ask yourself. Well, the answer to that are the vocals of Peter Sundquist. I'm not that fond of them, the constant shifting between clean and harsh vocals works just fine with these songs but still… there's something I don't like about it. It's just hard to pinpoint out the exact thing that bugs me.

However, if you're a fan of Nocturnal Rites and can stand vocals in the vein of In Flames you'll have to check this album out and make up your own mind about it. It's well worth the effort and who knows. You might like the vocals a lot more than I do.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
8	6	9	6	7

Summary
6,5 chalices of 10 - Mattias