FOGALORD – Masters of War
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Music
Epic
symphonic power metal or else Hollywood metal, if you remember the term (though
I would prefer the tag Cinecitta metal) is a genre to which Italy has offered
some very good bands. However, as any successful genre, we had an
overproduction of such bands from all over the word and somehow this caused its
decline. Personally, I have reached to a point of avoiding listening to such
bands, although I am a big fantasy fan. FOGALORD, though, with their debut that
was released in 2012, caught my attention and made me realize that there are
still musicians that can bring something fresh to the symphonic power metal
sound.
The
thing with FOGALORD that makes them differ from other bands of this genre is
that they emphasize on the heavy and power metal elements of their sound which
they blend with symphonic and folk elements. The keyboards play a major role,
but they don’t dominate on the other instruments. Actually the use of keyboards
gives this extra epic feeling that you can enjoy on epic movie soundtracks.
After
5 year from their debut album, FOGALORD continue from the point they left us
and offer us symphonic epic power metal that carries influences from bands like
RHAPSODY, MANOWAR, GAMMA RAY and BLIND GUARDIAN, but all these are given in a
fresh and innovative way.
I
don’t know if FOGALORD can reach out with their music to people who are not
into symphonic metal, but I am sure that they won’t disappoint the people that
liked their debut album and of course the diehard power metal fans.
Nick
“Verkaim” Parastatidis
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