Assailant - Nemesis Within - review
Assailant - Nemesis Within - review
Tracklist
01. Lies02. Buried Alive
03. Edge Of Forever
04. Downward Spiral
05. Until The End
06. Eternal
07. Mental State
08. Shattered
09. Tomorrow
10. Vanily Unfolds
11. My Awakening
A review by
Jeff June 26, 2006
If the album starts with a bad song that sounds some like some average Finnish Power totally destroyed by some bad lines of keyboards, the others songs are a lot more interesting. Actually Assailant plays a mix between Metal Core and European Power Metal and if it's not so easy to find such productions it's on the other hand really cool to see that some young bands know how to mix correctly these two really different musics. The opposition between the aggressive songs like "Edge Of Forever" (not so far away of Melodic Death on a side) and the classic Power Metal ones like "Buried Alive" is really good.
Also the voice of Peder Sundqvist is not so bad because if he is able to sing with a nice voice a la Tomas Englund, he is also able to sing with a pure Hardcore one (like on "Until The End") and it's really refreshing to have such contradiction on an album. Same remark with the others musicians who are all really good too.
But to sum up the only problem of this album is that it is maybe a bit linear on a side. The songs are good yes (except the first one) but we don't have a lot of progression during the album. I cannot blame the quality of the CD but I hope that our guys will be able in the future to add some different particularities in each songs because right now when you listen to one of them, you have the feeling that you're listening the precedent one.
"Nemesis Within" isn't perfect and the band still need to improve its music but there is something with these guys and I'm quite sure that their music will be able to please a lot of Metalheads. For sure, I think that the ones who like the new wave of US Metal and who are bored by classic European Power should try this album, because this is probably the perfect mix between our European music and US Metal?
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 7 |
| Songwriting: | 7 |
| Originality: | 8 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written by Jeff | June 26, 2006
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Is that evil Samara on the cover? I've got seven days of life, after listening to this CD 
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this thing just has to have something to do with the story of The Ring, i mean, the little evil girl, the titles of the tracks... 
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