SILVERTHORN

Silverthorn is a business-as-usual release from Kamelot which I'm sure will please fans of their mildly symphonic flavour of power metal but doesn't quite hit the point where it's going to win you over to their style if you're not a fan of their earlier work. The album has a rather busy production style - there tends to be a lot going on at any particular point in the album, to the point where the instruments and the choir and the synthesisers and the orchestrations all get piled on top of each other in a way which, to me, just comes across as kind of messy. This tends to obscure the finer qualities of the album, in my experience, though Kamelot faithful may find they have more patience with it.