Band:	Eternal Flight
Album:	Positive Rage
Style:	Power metal
Release date:	2004
A review by:	Jeff

01. The Masks Will Fall
02. Guardians
03. All We Are
04. New World
05. Real
06. Secret Place
07. Beyond (The Golden Gates)
08. Prelude (-Ath Is Not The end)
09. Back Into The Light (Renaissance)
10. Morphoenix
11. The Moon King

Eternal Flight is born from the ashes of the regretted Heavy Metal band from France Dream Child. After the split-up of the band in 1999, the singer Gérard Fois decided to follow his way and to work on a new project. In 2001 a new combo is born, its name, Eternal Flight. After a demo, the band releases it first album "Positive Rage" a subtle mixing of Power metal with some really important Progressive parts. In one word a real classy band?

Even if the name is new, Eternal Flight is not a real newbie. The very experimented musicians of the band, especially the singer Gérard Fois, do a real demonstration of their musical level. The first minutes of my first listening I say to myself, "well one more Power Metal band?" but I was absolutely wrong. When you'll listen to this album you'll see that the music of the band is a lot more complex than a classic Power Metal. In fact, the numerous Progressive parts of the music are impressive, and if a song can sound Heavy or Power, you can be sure that you'll always find a Progressive break. The keyboards are the principal elements of the Prog parts and sometime the music can be really deep like for a Dream Taster, or violent like for a Symphony X. Don't believe that the music of Eternal Flight is pure Prog Metal, we are in front of a Power Metal bands before all, but the several touches of Prog are really well done and all that is really pleasant.
The eleven songs with an average length of 6 mins (from 5 mins to 9 mins) are complex and very technical but however not boring at all, the music is catchy, we have some really nice compositions and no doubt that this album will become a new reference in the French Metal scene. With a great production and a really nice sound, a cover in the true Heavy Metal spirit by Geoffrey Gillespie [Doro, Warlock?] that's hard to find anything wrong on this album.

With "Positive Rage", Gérard Fois and his band mates of Eternal Flight prove one more time that we have some great promising bands here in France. I understand why the Italian label Cruz Del Sur signed them, they did a good choice, and I encourage you to do the same and to try find this album. You couldn't regret it?