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Warmen - Accept The Fact


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=Staff's pick

Accept The Fact*
Invisible Power
Waters Of Lethe
Roppongi Rumble
They All Blame Me*
Puppet
Lying Delilah
Return of Salieri*
Somebody's Watching Me


Genre Heavy Metal
Timo K., Marko V.
Vocals
Tracks 9
Antti Wirman
Guitar
Runningtime 39 Min.
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Guitar
Label Spinefarm Records
Lauri Porra
Bass
Release 06 July 2005
Mirka Rantanen
Drums
Country Finland
Janne Warman
Keyboards
Similar artists Stratovarius

When Children Of Bodom have a low season, their keyboardist Janne Warman composes and releases solo albums. This is effort number three, and initially it sounds like the style is not surprisingly the same as before: uptempo and melodic with strong emphasis on keyboard harmonies and keyboard/guitar duels. But as it turns out, those moments are few this time and more space has been given for normal heavy metal songs.

Supposedly, now when Children Of Bodom have decreased the amount of keyboards in their music dramatically, Mr. Warman's desire to squeeze in as much keyboards as possible should be on top, but that is actually not the case this time. There is a bigger amount of midtempo and heavy songs this time with various vocalists involved, such as Timo Kotipelto (Stratovarius), Markoo Vaara (Tunnelvision) and Kimberly Goss (Sinergy), just as on previous albums. Unfortunatly these songs are of the quickly forgetable kind. All over pretty simple and with tired guitars and a bit flat and cheesy refrains.

I am a sucker for keyboard/guitar stuff, so those elements I give thumbs up. Songs like Return Of Salieri and Accept The Fact are killers and during those I am in heaven. But the rest of this album - the majority of it - is just plain boring, despite somewhat prominent guests. One song that is worth mentioning more than others is They All Blame Me, a semi ballad with Kimberly Goss on vocals. When singing with "clean" vocals in the verses, she impresses me. There is a lot of soul in it and a name like Macy Gray comes to my mind. The chorus is also strong and the song is, if not a masterpiece, so at least very good.

But this album is still nothing to bother about. Unless you are into slow and heavy, melancholic songs with no clear melodies or charisma. But then you probably own and play Stratovarius' albums Elements Part I & II so much already that this is of no real need to you. Try to get a hold of the single with They All Blame Me instead. That's enough.

See also review of: Beyond Abilities

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Summary



4 chalices of 10 - Tommy

Related links:

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