Dark Avenger
Tales Of Avalon: The Lament

Brazilian band Dark Avenger gives us the second part of their story about Avalon, this one is called The Lament. Here we meet the characters of the Avalon story and many such things. And for you who follows the band already and are surprised that I write about this album now is that Scarlet Records releases it to the European market now but it was released back in 2013 on their home market. I think this album has an interesting artwork but at the same time the contents can be described as rather cliché.

Cliché epic power metal, that is how we can describe music like this. It is an album with a rather typical power metal sound, the production and vocalist can also be described as quite typical of the genre. I wouldn’t say that they take much of a novel approach to what they are doing, fans of the genre will find this fairly appealing while a critic might be less impressed with what he hears on this album. But of course we can describe this as something for the initiated power metal fan that understand the genre.

Not a bad album but it is not really that impressive either, for those loving every power metal thing it will be something well worth checking out. I think it is a decent collection of songs; a bit cliché for me to really take to it but as a moment of entertainment it works quite well. It is difficult to really say much about this album, it doesn’t really grab me in any way and in the end I find this album okay but also quite boring, especially the opening part that sounds as something a silly band like Rhapsody or something like them could have thought up.

So in the end I think that this is an album for the power metal fans, especially those who likes the knights in shining armour thing. For the rest of us it is probably just a moment of diversion but nothing we will really remember or want to return to. Dark Avenger really needs to find a voice that is more their own, and they also need to make better songs if they want to be interesting. It is not bad but it is not that great either.

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