THE COLD EMBRACE OF FEAR

New Mini CD, released by Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody Of Fire contains 35+ minutes long "dark romantic symphony" of 7 parts. Everything goes according to genre's rules there - bombastic orchestration, melodic tunes, symphonic arrangements, strong influence of medieval music,operatic vocals. Plus dragons, tales,narrators....

Really nice small release in traditions of Italian rock music. If you like Therion, but they are too progressive for you, taste this. Or - just imagine Iron Maiden goes power metal goes RPI (just remove all possible progressive traces from result mix). Vocalist learned plenty from Bruce Dickinson in singing manner, and really isn't bad. Instrumentation is classic Italian though - bombastic, over-arranged and very polished.

But - main problem of such music is it's not a progressive metal at all. And not a progressive music of any other form. But good Italian version of Symphonic power metal, so if you like such music - this release is for you.