Ikinae - Second Symptom

*=Staff's pick	Intro No Shame At All Me, Bob And Jack* Lucky Seven Take Me Home Hard To Breathe

Genre	Metal	Tommi Niemi	Vocals
Tracks	6	Ilkka Kivimäki	Guitar
Runningtime	30 Min.	Joonatan Alatalo	Guitar
Label		Juni Luoma	Bass
Release	24 June 2005	Ossi Mäki Reini	Drums
Country	Finland	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	---

Last time I heard this Finnish band, Ikinae, was after their self-released debut Lucky Seven. I remember their music as a quite varied metal with a bit clean, yet powerful voice from the vocalist Tommi Niemi. This demo that we received is called Second Symptom and was recorded in early 2005 and was mixed at the Astia Studio with Anssi Kippo as engineer. Unfortunately my copy which was sent from the band wasn't in the best condition, so two of the songs haven't even been considered in this review.

I would say that Ikinaes second release is well produced with a very great sound, the guitars are extremely metal, I guess that's the best description. The music is kind of same as on the Lucky Seven mini cd. Perhaps there are some parts of the songs that feel more fresh and harder, but still the music has many different styles that sometimes don't feel like they are in harmony to each other. Sometimes there are quite good parts that make you think of the bay area style, with really heavy riffings and arrangements, and sometimes there is the more pro-german style like Blind Guardian as an example.

A talented band of quite young musicians that I think could really get more out of their music if they put more harmony to it and straighten it out a bit. More forward instead of going sideways so to speak. As for now there are to many ingredients in the music.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
7	6	5

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - Tim