DRAGONHAMMER – The Blood of the Dragon
My Kingdom Music
This is the debut album of
the Italian power metal band DRAGONHAMMER. For the first time it was released
back in 2001 and over the years it has sold 6000 copies around the world. The
first edition is sold out and now My Kingdom Music decided to re-release it.
THE COVER: The cover shows a dragon and a person dressed like a lizard
holding a hammer against the dragon. It has a comic feeling and I think that I
like it and actually it fits to the kind of music that DRAGONHAMMER play.
MUSICAL STYLE: In 2001 power metal was ruling once again the heavy
metal sound and towards achieving that helped such bands like HAMMERFALL and
RHAPSODY. So it is natural that DRAGONHAMMER’s sound is influenced by such bands,
but they also have influences from the neoclassical and baroque music and this
is obvious on their keyboards.
COMPOSITIONS: The re – release of the debut album of DRAGONHAMMER
includes the 10 original songs and as bonus it has 2 live recordings of “Dragonhammer”
and “Scream”. The compositions are not bad, but also can’t stand out. I think
that even for the time it was first released it sounded too typical for the
power metal genre. I mean that they don’t have the melodies and the choruses
that will make you remember them and sing along to.
CONCLUSION: “The Blood of the Dragon” is not a bad release since I
listened to it without it tiring me at any point, but also it is not a
memorable one, because after I finished listening to it, I wasn’t able to remember
any of the songs. Only the diehard fans of the band and the European power
metal sound would find here something interesting.
Nick “Verkaim” Parastatidis
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