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Beast In Black - Dark Connection



7.5 | 163 votes |
Release date: 29 October 2021
Style: Heavy metal, Power metal, Pop rock

Owners:

70 have it
10 want it


01. Blade Runner
02. Bella Donna
03. Highway To Mars
04. Hardcore
05. One Night In Tokyo
06. Moonlight Rendezvous
07. Revengeance Machine
08. Dark New World
09. To The Last Drop Of Blood
10. Broken Survivors
11. My Dystopia
12. Battle Hymn [Manowar cover]
13. They Don't Care About Us [Michael Jackson cover]

Line-up
Yannis Papadopoulos - vocals
Anton Kabanen - guitars, vocals, synthesizers, orchestration
Kasperi Heikkinen - guitars
Atte Palokangas - drums
Máté Molnár - bass

Additional musicians:
Cynthia - synthesizers, keyboards
Paolo Ribaldini - backing vocals
Mikael Salo - backing vocals

Additional info
Produced, written and mixed by Anton Kabanen. Additional mixing assistance by Yannis Papadopoulos.

Staff review by
ScreamingSteelUS
Rating:
9.0
Berserker was one of the best debuts I ever clapped ears on, one of my highlights of the 2010s – and then, for whatever reason, From Hell With Love just sank for me. This is the all-important third-album test. Can Beast In Black make another Dark Connection?

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published 25.10.2021 | Comments (10)

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Comments: 29   Visited by: 431 users
14.09.2021 - 04:27
Rating: 9
mikeprado30
AWAITED!!!
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BARDS WE ARE, BARDS WE WILL BE!
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14.09.2021 - 08:13
nikarg
Staff
Written by mikeprado30 on 14.09.2021 at 04:27

AWAITED!!!

Here's the first single
Catchy as hell.

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18.09.2021 - 23:08
Rating: 9
mikeprado30
Written by nikarg on 14.09.2021 at 08:13

Written by mikeprado30 on 14.09.2021 at 04:27

AWAITED!!!

Here's the first single
Catchy as hell.



That's their strongest point, the catchiness.
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BARDS WE ARE, BARDS WE WILL BE!
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02.10.2021 - 21:02
Rating: 9
mikeprado30
Dunno, but I'm fearing the worst from this moment...

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02.10.2021 - 21:16
Rating: 4
JoHn Doe
Written by mikeprado30 on 02.10.2021 at 21:02

Dunno, but I'm fearing the worst from this moment...



this was rather bad TBH
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I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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02.10.2021 - 21:34
Rating: 9
mikeprado30
Definitively not my cup of tea anymore if the album is like this track (hopefully it won't be so, but a colleague of mine for a Latin American metal webzine told me the album is regular).
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BARDS WE ARE, BARDS WE WILL BE!
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04.10.2021 - 14:05
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
Written by mikeprado30 on 02.10.2021 at 21:02



I wanted to hate it, but it's fckin' guilty pleasure...can't help not to like that crazy synth tune
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My rest seems now calm and deep
Finally I got my dead man sleep


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04.10.2021 - 16:38
Rating: 4
JoHn Doe
Written by Ellrohir on 04.10.2021 at 14:05

Written by mikeprado30 on 02.10.2021 at 21:02



I wanted to hate it, but it's fckin' guilty pleasure...can't help not to like that crazy synth tune

it starts like a 90s euro-dance song, I expect someone to come and sing "What is Love?"
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I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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16.10.2021 - 01:17
Rating: 8
Tino99
I like my pizza with extra cheese, but I fear this may be too much. Moonlight Rendezvous is growing on me though.
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22.10.2021 - 04:44
Rating: 6
Aries Rising
This band is so cheesy that prolonged listening can clog your arteries.
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25.10.2021 - 01:40
Rating: 6
Karlabos
Didn't know this band was power metal with electronic elements like Magic Hammer. Cmon guys pop rock? Get your genres straight. I'd have discovered this far sooner
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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25.10.2021 - 17:04
Babymetal mutated into it
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Album Release day (October 29, 2021)
29.10.2021 - 13:26
Rating: 4
JoHn Doe
I don't like this one. I enjoyed the previous album, still atypical listen for me, but I had fun. But not with this one. I also disliked their debut. Not my thing.
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I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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30.10.2021 - 05:38
Rating: 9
mikeprado30
Luckily my fears were wrong, and I enjoyed so much the album Obviously that's not a listening for the tr00 kvlt, but it's made for the open-minded listener
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BARDS WE ARE, BARDS WE WILL BE!
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01.11.2021 - 16:03
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Tage Westerlund
This is disco and disco is crap, unless there are half nacked what will be nacked later ladies , music dont work to me. Some metal elements, well prev one was more pop rock, 80's pop music, this is totally disco rock something.
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I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens.

Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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01.11.2021 - 16:27
Rating: 6
Karlabos
This was surprisingly not cheesy enough, given the expectations brought up by the genre mix. Oh well...
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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04.11.2021 - 13:46
Rating: 6
FeskarN
This album is a hit and miss for me. Some tracks a really catchy and got plenty of replay value, some are just pretty boring tbh. Their weakest effort to date. Strongest tracks: Blade Runner, Bella Donna, One Night In Tokyo and My Dystopia. The Micheal Jackson cover is really awesome as well.
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The Land Is Silent... Before The Storm!
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15.11.2021 - 12:03
Rating: 5
lust
I've listened to a few songs and now I'm waiting for Beyoncé's new album.

This album may be something but I think it's definitely not metal.
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01.12.2021 - 19:25
Rating: 9
Spacerunner
Pop metal it is. Cheesy and fun. Awesome addition to Amaranthe.
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01.12.2021 - 20:44
Rating: 9
Elisyon
Few more listens and I think this is an amazing album. Lyrically superb and coherent and love the concept and how they managed to tell a story in each song. some cheese never hurt
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25.01.2022 - 14:15
Rating: 7
Mountain King
K i K o
The covers push this to a 7 for me, otherwise 6 or even 5. Tracks 2 till 5 are just bad imo.
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19.02.2022 - 18:32
Rating: 5
metalbrat
This is total crap. Wonder how it ended up getting very high rates from some regulars. I prefer to relisten 80s 'now that's what i call disco'...:noidea:
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In the beginning I was made of clay. Then I bit the apple and they changed me to metal 🤘
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13.07.2022 - 10:38
Rating: 7
24emd
Theory Snob
Significant step down from the first two. Yannis' voice unfortunately started annoying me on this record, and some of the songs (cheese aside) are just not that great. Though there are still some great tracks bumping my rate up to a 7, like "Bella Donna" and "My Dystopia" and maybe even "To The Last Drop Of Blood" (From Hell With Love vibes on that one). "One Night In Tokyo" is so full of cheese and cringe that it's actually enjoyable. But apart from those peaks, the album is average.
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08.09.2022 - 07:59
Rating: 7
tintinb
The music is good and everything but it tends to be boring after a few songs, all those soaring vocals and sounds of excitement and victory, it feels tedious to listen to it continuously. The Michael Jackson cover was really good though.
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Leeches everywhere.
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19.10.2022 - 15:40
Rating: 4
Samot
Meh
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Um, Dois, Três, Quatro! Yeah! PORRA!!!
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05.02.2023 - 08:18
Stunning Cactus
Way too synthy and poppy, would be better to see them go back to their debut style. Ghost In The Rain is probably the best song they will have ever written.
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24.04.2023 - 09:49
Rating: 8
qlacs
"The Quaker"
Weird seeing how people loved them at their first two, but for me this was the record that clicked. The synth elements sounded a little off place for me on their debut, here they are so well integrated, probably because there is also more of them, and the production quality serves it so well - I also feel like Yannis' voice developed more (and a little low in the mix, but eh).
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27.08.2023 - 19:35
A Real Mönkey
I heard My Dystopia on an Arma 3 video and it's been getting spun by me an alarming amount of times.
I'VE TURNED MY BACK ON THE PUREST OF HEARTS
SUMMONED THE BEAST OUT OF THE DARK
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27.12.2023 - 16:05
Rating: 8
Ansercanagicus
endangered bird
Returning to this one, it's still a suprisingly efficient formula, despite the cheese and synth in pop, they went 200% into it and managed to constantly build up the adrelanine.
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