Burning Point - The Blaze

Published November 26 2016

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Genre	Power Metal	Nitte Valo	Vocals
Tracks	11	Pete Ahonen	Guitar
Running time	45 Min.	Pekka Kolivuori	Guitar
Label	AFM Records	Sami Nyman	Bass
Release	November 25, 2016	Jussi Ontero	Drums
Country	Finland	Jarkko Väisänen	Keyboard
Producer	Jussi Ontero
Similar artists	---

Finnish metal legion Burning Point comes out mainly with somewhat bombastic and speedy power metal and this new record comprises some nice stuff indeed and 3 or 4 songs are really great.

It's slightly monotonous though because they sort of stick to a certain style for the most part and even if I now surely overstate my point with this specific narrow partition, the rather new singer Nitte Valo pretty much ends up in 2 regions; the first being her, so to speak, normal voice and the second being a pretty strident one in the faster parts which maybe becomes a little bit too much if you would listen to the album a repeated number of times like I've done.

The Blaze is in the end a pretty good record with a few fine melodies in the choruses, a solid drive through the verses and a quite powerful appearance overall.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	4	6	6	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe