Seven Witches - Passage To The Other Side

*=Staff's pick	Dance With The Dead Mental Messiah Johnny Apocalyptic Dreams Fever In The City Betrayed The Last Horizon Nature´s Wrath Wasted Passage To The Other Side

Genre	Heavy Metal	James Rivera	Vocals
Tracks	10	Jack Frost	Guitar
Runningtime	51 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Sanctuary	Joey Vera	Bass
Release	24 March 2003	Brian Craig	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Halford, Armored Saint

On the third album from Seven Witches, James Rivera (Destiny´s End, Helstar) steps in to take over the vocals, and for me that hasn´t heard him since the time in Helstar starts immediately to wonder if he has been taking singinglessons from Rob "The Metal God" Halford himself.

Just listen to the track Mental Messiah that might as well be from Halford´s album Crucible (2002). The simularities goes further on during the 48 minutes that Passage To The Other Side will keep you in its spell. This is a real good album that musically is close to that kind of modern metal that Halford is practising today as well as the traces of classic eighties thrash is obvious with an apperent touch of Judas Priest. Only original bandmember Jack Frost (Bronx Casket Company, Metalium) has together with experienced bassist Joey Vera (Fates Warning, Armored Saint, Engine) composed all music as well as producing the album.

The tracks that rises above the rest are the straightforward Mental Messiah, Lost Horizon with a cathy refrain that sticks in your mind and the mighty titletrack Passage To The Other Side. Even if the rest of the songs not quite match up to these they still hold a very high quality if you overlook the cover of Def Leppard´s Wasted.

See also review of: Xiled To Infinity And One

Production	Vocals	Compositions
7	6	7

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Thomas