Athena - Twilight Of Days
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Twilight of Days* |
| Genre | Power Metal |
Francesco Neretti
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Vocals
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| Tracks | 12 |
Simone Pellegrini
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Guitar
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| Runningtime | 55 Min. |
Graziano Poggetti
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Guitar
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| Label | Noise Records |
Fabio Duveri
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Bass
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| Release | 19 Jan. 2001 |
Ross Lukather
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Drums
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| Country | Italy |
Gabrielle Guidi
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Keyboards
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| Similar artists | --- | ||
Athena's Twilight of Days came into my possession after
being named "Album of the Month" on Noise official homepage
and after I had heard The Way to Heaven's Gates.
But this album is somewhat of a disappointment to me.
As you can guess from the names of the members in the band we're dealing
with an Italian power metal band here and the fact that Italians sometimes
have great problems with production and sound is crystal clear in this
case.
The sound itself is NOT crystal clear though and is way
below average of even a just approved production.
The album is produced by the band itself and that mission, I am very
sad to say, has utterly failed.
How it can be this bad in this day in age for a band that apparently
have a contract with Noise is a bit hard to understand for me. In the
beginning I thought there was something wrong with my copy, CD player
or something… But enough with the negative aspects for the time
being.
The album contains a few really good tracks and the bands'
intentions are very good too. I really like the title track and with
a way better production the song The Way to Heavens' Gates would have
climbed high on my personal top list.
There are other tracks that have good melodies, intros, choruses and
such too and the band has got good musicians with a good feel for metal.
So after having heard the album back and forth a few times I begin to
really feel for the band.
A talented group of musicians on a recognised label and it comes down
to this.
With a much better production next time Athena should
really be to reckon with 'cause there's absolutely nothing wrong with
their musical skills.
If I could grade The Twilight of Days on the basis on music alone it
would be much higher, but for now Athena (very unfortunately) have to
settle for a lower number of chalices.
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Production
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Vocals
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Compositions
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6,5 |
7 |
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Summary
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6 chalices of 10 - Mat |
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