Band:	Dawn Of Destiny
Album:	Human Fragility
Style:	Power metal
Release date:	September 25, 2009
A review by:	Bas

01. Decadence Of A Heart
02. Silent Suffering
03. Unborn Child
04. In A Heartless World
05. Learning To Fly
06. A Better Time To Come
07. Human Fragility
08. Destiny Unknown
09. Ten Plagues Of Egypt
10. Dying Alone
11. Blown Away
12. End Of Pain
13. One Heart
14. Unchained Someday
15. For Love

In my time as a reviewer I've received a lot of CDs I enjoyed, but only few that I keep on listening to regularly. The one album I reviewed and still listen to most is without a doubt Dawn Of Destinys Rebellion In Heaven (you can find the review here). Being as it is I was quite excited when I opened an envelope and found Human Fragility inside. Although my first thought was "Ok, it's good, however not quite as good as it's predecessor.", it soon became apparent that as with the previous album, Human Fragility starts out as a great disc on initial playing and then gets better and better!

Now for those not lucky enough to own Rebellion In Heaven; Dawn Of Destiny play female fronted power metal. If you don't like this style DOD won't change your opinion of it, you won't like them either. If you do enjoy the style on the other hand, oh goody! What a treat you're in for!

Angelic and greatly varied vocal work sung to majestic melodies, heavy speed metal and even thrash parts, including blazing double-bass drumming and growls every now and then, keyboards that switch between atmospheric background and short but effective foreground parts. Emotional guitar solos and strong bass parts are just as much a part of their typical sound as the varied songwriting, the slight progressions in the songs and some amazingly catchy and addictive choruses. Two guest vocalists also help enriching the album. "Unborn Child" is graced with Bernie Weiss of Axxis, while Ian Perry of Elegy makes a fantastic appearance on the title track.

Dawn Of Destiny don't bring anything new to the genre they're playing. Sure, they infuse their melodic power metal with harsher and faster elements on some songs while sweetening it up (not unsimilar to Lunatica) on other tracks, but this is nothing that hasn't been done before. On the other hand I've always said a band doesn't always have to be innovative to the max. Simply being better than other bands doing the same thing is good enough!

By now I've given Human Fragility quite some playing time and still it's getting just a tiny bit better from spin to spin. Still I can't say if it's better than it's awesome predecessor or not. It has less of the uber-catchy choruses but on the other hand it's heavier and more varied. Regardless of which of the two is better though, I can say for sure that this is by far the best female-fronted power metal album I have heard this year.