Artist : Zandelle Country : USA Release : Shadows Of The Past Year : 2011 Genre : Heavy Metal File Type : mp3 320 Info:
Now for 15 years ZANDELLE from New York City play melodic Power Metal
with striking high-pitched-vocals, decent keyboard-influences and many
double bass-parts, which unites the European and the US-American sound
harmonically. They were founded by singer George Tsalikis, after he left
his predecessor-band Gothic Knights.
Already the most actual
studio-album „Flames Of Rage“ was released through Pure Steel Records in
2009, with „Shadows Of The Past“ now there is a compilation, which has
got four songs of the first, self-titled EP from 1996 and six songs of
the 1998 released debut-album „Shadows Of Reality“, which are nearly
impossible to get today. All of them are re-recorded. In addition to
that with “Unleashed” (originally recorded for the in 2006 released
“Vengeance Rising”-album, but never released before), “Scream My Name”
(a brand new song) and the Whitesnake-cover “Bad Boys”, there are three
bonus tracks on it. The second CD contains all tracks in the original
versions from 1996 and 1998. In relation to newer outputs, which got a
more European touch, on their first two outputs ZANDELLE sounded more
US-American and also the keyboard-parts were more in the background. The
production had a dryer sound than nowadays, but this wasn’t even
changed really with the re-recordings.
A very interesting
time-document, which proves, that also in the second half of the 90s
there have been some bands, which played flawless, true Heavy Metal!
TRACKLIST:
Artist : Zandelle
Country : USA
Release : Vengeance Rising
Year : 2006
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320
Info:
Vengence Rising is in True Heavy Metal form.
The
lead guitarist(Anthony Maglio)shreds, with killer harmonies and amazing
virtuosity. The vocals are pure with heart. The vocalist
(George
Tsalikis) voice is in top form with a lower register than the previous
album, however you can expect the searing high notes and occassional
metal screams. The Bass and Drums are tight, pure adrenaline from start
to finish!!! Sonically, this album sounds amazing. Pump this album on
your speakers or headphones and you will hear a great mix, and all the
dynamics and frquencies of all the vocals and instruments.
In summary...This album Rocks!!!!
TRACKLIST:
Artist : Zandelle Country : USA Release : Flames Of Rage Year : 2009 Genre : Heavy Metal File Type : mp3 320 Info:
With the shortest song counting five minutes, you'll be trapped in a
typhoon of blistering guitar riffs, sharp metallic leads and energetic
rhythm section while listening to Flames Of Rage. Be it the reborn
lineup or Tsalikis' creativity, the whole songlist - omit the last one -
breathes fire and outburst. With some really rich/complex themes, still
far away from being called as progressive (or maybe that's what
progression means in Metal music?), ZANDELLE succeeds in creating a
'steel meets steel' atmosphere that surely draws influence from the
American Metal standards (JAG PANZER, MANOWAR, HELSTAR, ICED EARTH etc)
but also flirts a lot with the European side of metallum (JUDAS PRIEST,
GAMMA RAY, early HELLOWEEN).
The result is rather furious, to cut a
long story short. Still, the album is not as in-your-face as you may
imagine. Depending on Tsalikis' singing or the leads themes, Flames Of
Rage can also act as a sample of the theatric or epic side of solid
Metal music.
Thursday, November 05, 2015
