Band:	Blynd
Album:	Embraced And Abandoned
Style:	Heavy metal, Thrash metal
Release date:	2004
A review by:	Jeff

01. Circle Of Life
02. Embraced And Abandoned
03. My Sanctuary
04. Eternity
05. Blynd Visions

Blynd is a young band that comes from Cyprus. That's not so easy to classify their music, actually they play a mix between Thrash, Death and even Progressive metal on some parts of the songs. Even if the album suffers of an average production (but hey, that's just a demo?) that's really easy to see that we have a lot of potential here and I'm quite sure that Blynd will be a good surprise of our future.

"Embraced And Abandoned" is a good surprise, actually the music remind me some bands like Orphaned Land (especially on "Circle Of Life") or Paradise Lost and Moonspell. I don't say that it is a clone or even that they play the same kind of music, actually Blynd is a lot more Thrashy, but in the spirit we aren't not really far away.

The music of the Demo is dark but the songs are catchy, really effective and that's easy to see that we have some potential hits on this album. I just hope that they will have some good recording means when they will record their first album because that's the only problem of the CD. They deserve it at least?

Actually I think that Blynd will be able to do something especially when Andreas said to me that they want to follow the way of the first song of the album for their future compositions. And let me say that this one is a great one with some "Folkish" parts really amazing. Also the progressive break and solos are all really excellent and yes I believe in this band actually.

Let's hope that they will have the luck to find a label, they deserve it in my opinion regarding the quality of the compositions of the demo. That's a good original music and we are in front of a talented band. I'm sure that Blynd will do something really and I invite you to check their website to listen to some samples and to see that I'm serious when I see that we're in front of a really interesting combo.