Eden's Curse - Symphony Of Sin

Published October 09 2013

*=Staff's pick	Symphony Of Sin* Break The Silence Evil & Divine Unbreakable Fallen From Grace* Losing My Faith Rock Bottom Great Unknown Turn The Page Sign Of The Cross Wings To Fly Devil In Disguise* Where Is The Love?

Genre	Hard Rock/Melodic Metal	Nikola Mijic	Vocals
Tracks	13	Thorsten Koehne	Guitar
Running time	67 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	AFM Records	Paul Logue	Bass
Release	04 October 2013	Pete Newdeck	Drums
Country	Germany/England/Scotland/Serbia	Steve Williams	Keyboard
Producer	Dennis Ward
Similar artists	---

With its fourth release, multi-international outfit Eden's Curse presents a melodic metal album, leaning towards hard rock with a few progressive elements and occasionally also with well disguised pop rhythms. Melodic metal is somewhat frequently used as a paraphrase to music that lacks powerful and striking material that makes you wanna shout out loud in a state of elation and joy and I also face a double-edged sword when I listen to Symphony Of Sin, since I really can't decide if this is just generally bland or heavy hitting, from one spin to the other.

The record shows neat guitar playing with great soloing, but without significant heavy riffing, backed up by rhythmic beats and topped by a glorious vocal performance from new lead vocalist Nikola Mijic. The songs throughout the record are definitely varied when I listen to each one of them, although a few too many songs run in an easy-going tempo. When I have listened to the entire sixty-seven minutes, I somehow feel like I'm stuck frozen on square one though, just waiting for those kick-ass moments that functions as icing on the cake.

This is absolutely not a poor performance and I believe that many fans of melodic metal in fact will consume this album with delight. Some songs are stunning, some leaves me totally unaffected and a few ones are a bit cheesy. When I sum things up, these assertions strand me without something that really ignites my cylinders to create a massive musical experience that makes my blood rush and therefore I hand out 5 chalices to a decent album.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	4	8	8	5

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - Tobbe