Band:	Dawn Of Silence
Album:	Moment Of Weakness
Style:	Melodic heavy metal
Release date:	2006
A review by:	Jeff

01. Hands Of Fate
02. Out Of Time
03. Point Of No Return
04. Long Time Dead
05. Moment Of Weakness
06. Fire & Ice
07. Misguided Life
08. Midnight
09. Seeker Of Truth
10. Dark Secrets
11. Seven Gates
12. Fear Of Life

Dawn Of Silence is a newcomer from Sweden. After a lot of demos the band got a deal with Metal Heaven and they release this year their debut album, "Moment Of Weakness". If you like good Heavy and Power Metal, let's say that you'll find good things on this release, but in anyway you'll be blinded by its originality.

"Moment Of Weakness", and that' s its main problem actually, is a perfect mix of Iron Maiden and Edguy. In this release, you'll be able to find the same kind of music than with this two bands, hyper melodic choruses, catchy melodies and riffs a la Maiden (exactly the same?). It's not so displeasing to listen to this album, Patrik Johansson is a good singer really (he is probably the strong point of the band) and the band wrote good songs. Unfortunately if I had to rate the originality of this album on 10, I think that I would give it 2; no more. "Moment Of Weakness" is not bad, but it sounds a bit like a clone. They will have to fix this problem?

Produced by Georg Siegl himself, this album doesn't really suffer of any big problems. The guys are good musicians, Patrick Johansson is a good singer (with a voice a la Bruce Dickinson) and to sum up, there is nothing to say against this band except maybe that it is a bit too much generic and similar to Iron Maiden. Though, with time and experience, it should change I think?

"Moment Of Weakness" is only a debut album, all is not perfect but if this young Swedish band didn't find the way to write songs with its own personality, it's obvious that they have a strong potential, so let's wait a bit, "Moment Of Weakness" is maybe not essential but it's promising. We will have to follow this band, if they manage to break the links with bands like Maiden or Edguy, it should work for them.