Andre Matos - The Turn Of The Lights

Published November 14 2012

*=Staff's pick	Liberty* Course Of Life* The Turn Of The Lights Gaza Stop!* On Your Own* Unreplaceable Oversoul White Summit Light-Years Sometimes Fake Plastic Trees

Genre	Power Metal	Andre Matos	Vocals
Tracks	12	Hugo Mariutti	Guitar
Running time	57 Min.	Andre Hernandes	Guitar
Label	earMusic	Bruno Ladislau	Bass
Release	22 October 2012	Rodrigo Silveira	Drums
Country	Brazil	See review	Keyboard
Producer	See review
Similar artists	Edguy, Freedom Call

Produced by Brendan Duffey and Adriano Daga. Co-produced by Andre Matos and Hugo Mariutti.
Keyboards and piano by Andre Matos and Hugo Mariutti. Additional keyboards by Hugo Bertolaccini.

Brazilian and former Viper, Angra and Shaman vocalist Andre Matos now releases his third solo album. Long awaited by some fans and die-hards. Speaking for myself, I had almost no idea what to expect from this release. Some sort of power metal was my sole and obvious thought.

The Turn Of The Lights is split in two fractions. It contains nine tracks of melodic and catchy power metal, sometimes symphonic, other times progressive and also just straight traditional. The remaining three tracks, Gaza, Sometimes and Fake Plastic Trees, are ballads, or in this case more similar to dreadful and stinking lullabies. One thing is for sure, ballads aren't what Matos should release in 2012. For God's sake, these three tracks are utter shit. I'm usually not an opponent to ballads and from time to time they can lift a record to heights unknown, but the songs presented here bore me to death and should have never made the album.

Enough with the blood spitting and froth streaming from my mouth corners. When counting the ballads out, the major part of the songs are good or even great, with some minor exception. When I play the CD and skip the three songs mentioned above, it's nothing but a joyful and pleasant ride. The overall impression however gets a thorn in the side and my total rating stays at 6 chalices, which actually means a good record and shouldn't certainly not be considered bad.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	5	7	7	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe