Band:	Beyon-D-Lusion
Album:	First Step To The Source
Style:	Gothic rock
Release date:	2004
A review by:	Jeff

01. Destitution
02. Out Of My Grasp
03. Into The Maze
04. Oriens (Ruins And Rise)

"Beyon-D-Lusion" is a project from France due to the meeting of two really good musicians. Alexandra Bernard [Vocals] and Medhi Khadouj [Guitars and Keyboards] [Keyboard of the excellent "Furia"]. For the ones who already know "Furia", you know like me that Medhi his certainly one of the reasons which do, due to his very good talent of writing, that this band is one of the best newcomer from France since a lot of time. This is not a surprise then, if I say that this new project with the great voice of Alexandra is one of the best things that I listened to this year. More than a surprise, this band could become very quickly one of the most promising bands from France.

I must say that this cd is more than a surprise for me. Really it's a great album, and for sure when I listen to it, I have the feeling that something really great will come for this band.
In fact the music of "Beyon - D - Lusion" is maybe not very new but on the other hand it's more than well done and the there is some personal touch of Medhi in the music which do that at the end, "Fisrt Step To The Source" is a pure atomic bomb of Atmospheric Metal.
There is a lot of strong point in that album. The first one is certainly the great voice of Alexandra. It reminds me the one of Johanna Depierre of "Amaran" but Alexandra can also have sometime a very nice lyrical voice a la Floor Jansen. In fact Alexandra is a really good singer and for sure she grow up the level of the band and you'll see when you'll listen to this cd that she is a very promising singer.
But Medhi is also a really good musician and all the musical compositions of the MCD are just really excellent. The music is very atmospheric but also very catchy with a lot of good riffs and very nice lines of keyboards.
And again it's same for the production of this MCD which is really good too, very professional, and it's hard for me to find something bad with this band. Hoo maybe one thing this is just a "project". Well I hope it will become a real band because they deserve to be more than a project only?

Well well, we are here with one of the most promising band from France, and I really believe in them. I'm sure that they could become the French band with a female singer with the notoriety of a Within Temptation or After Forver.
This is a really good first MCD, and [I'm not too bad for that :-p ] I really believe that we will hear of "Beyon - D - Lusion", you can trust me, and I can bet some money on them if you want? I will win the jackpot no doubt on it?