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Emerald is a Swiss
band that was born in 1995 out of the ashes of two bands called Dark Crystal
and Oppress. They have since then appeared on several sampler albums and
recorded two albums on their own. This is actually their second self-financed
album from last year that is now being re-released by Shark Records with two
new bonus tracks. One thing I must say before starting to say things that will
not be of much benefit to the band and that is that these guys are very good
musicians indeed. The thing that works against them is that they are not the
best song writers and some of the tracks on this album actually gets very
boring very quickly. Playing a mix of modern power and classic heavy metal
they will probably attract some attention anyway and they do deserve this. The
first couple of tracks are classic heavy metal the way I like it but the
vocalist sounds really, really, and I do mean really, awful. When the band
started out back in 1995 they had a female vocalist named Véronique Remy and I
would have preferred to listen to her instead. Emerald is a band that could
become very big though if they only change their vocalist and focus more on
the song writing process next time. I must say one more thing about the
vocalist to finish this off. He isn't a lousy vocalist because he is doing
the absolute best within his reach but he has a terrible voice, at least for
metal.
| Tracklist |
1. Calling The Knights 2. |
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Emerald Knights 3. Unreasonable Violence 4. Shadowknight |
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5. Medieval Steel 6. Victims Of Society 7. Hard To Be |
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True 8. You Belong To Me 9. Across The Sea 10. |
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Battlefield Bonus tracks: 11. I Will Remember 12. |
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Independence |
: 63.15
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