IMMORTAL

Third album of this little known band, released in 2008 named simply Immortal is another worthy one from their catalogue. This time exist Lance King and enters the voice of Iced Earth - Matthew Barlow. His voice is quite diffrent then Lances but aswell fits perfect into this type of power metal. His voice is much deeper and little rougher the KIngs but has some spectacular moments both on up tempo pieces as one more mellow ones. Musically speaking this is no diffrent then predecesor, maybe in places they concentrated more on power metal side living those prog metal elements from previous album little sparse here, but not ba d really. To me Pyramaze plays a fairly solid type of european power metal with prog metal leanings and has some very solid musicianship on every piece. Touched by the Mara or Ghost light are solid tracks that will please every fan of this kind of music, at least I like what I've hered here, even the album overall is not fantastic or original, has plenty of memorable passages that keeps me conected to the music. Even this is a 3 star album maybe 3.5 in places I prefere previous one, to me their best so far.

The third Pyramaze album finds Matt Barlow of Iced Earth stepping in to tackle lead vocals on a one-time-only deal, his style being well-suited to this more aggressive and punchy take on Pyramaze's prog-tinged power metal style. (In fact, there's points on here where things start resembling the most power metal-flavoured moments of Symphony X's early work.) It's still Dungeons & Dragons fantasy metal through and through - there's even one song, Caramon's Poem, based on the Dragonlance series of D&D tie-in novels - so don't expect anything especially grim or serious. At the same time, I find it an enjoyable consolidation over Legend of the Bone Carver.