Band:	Ivory Knight
Album:	Unconscience
Style:	Melodic heavy metal
Release date:	January 2005

01. Up From The Ashes
02. Borderline
03. Holy Martyr
04. Unconscience
05. Introspective
06. The Unseen Enemy
07. In Fog I Walk
08. Theater Of The Insane
09. Eleven
10. Waiting For Tomorrow

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I was eager to listen this Cd, I mean look at the gorgeous cover art, you can really tell these guys really gave the necessary attention to the visual aspect of the album. The booklet and inlay is really well crafted also. Musically, I thought it was another Progressive band, but turned out to be a Classic Heavy Metal album with some hints of Progressive all over the place.

The album was produced by Jeff Waters from Annihilator fame, and as a matter of fact, in the early stages of the band, they shared one member with Annihilator.
History lesson apart, the band bring us a classic Heavy metal sound with great musicianship, but with a major flaw (at least for me), the vocalist.

The frontman, John Devadsan Perinbam, extremely annoying, sure he has a powerful voice, but why lord why he has to do those awful falsettos? Ruined the whole experience for me, at times I thought "hey, this is not that bad" and then the waaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Let's take "Borderline" after the amazing instrumental section of the song you can hear some grunted vocals, really harsh, precise for the moment, and then? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! No more comments.

Besides the exasperating vocals, I must say I'm really impressed with Ivory Knight musicianship, the instrumental sections are quite good, and you can tell, without knowing much technical stuff, that these guys are really skilled.

But I guess you can't entirely trust me on the vocals thing, I'm quite picky with this kind of stuff, and while I find it annoying, you might find it totally compelling, so my advise? Go to their website and listen some streams of the songs posted in there, then you can tell me how wrong I was and how much you hate me.

Anyway, you'll find great musicianship on this album, but you'll also encounter some flaws like the after mentioned. Try first if, you don't trust me.