Band : Master Castle
Album Title : The Phoenix
Label : Lion Music
Distributor : Lion Music - Bertus
Release Date : 17/04/2009
Review : CD

The Phoenix is on the verge of power metal, but not quite, there is something missing, although you would expect this type of metal to be of Italian origin. The style is more of a melodic gothic metal with shredding guitars, but with an influence of Yngwie Malmsteen, Rainbow, Impellitteri and Labyrinth.(Pier Gonella is guitar player)

This 10 track CD provides 44 minutes of solid European female-fronted fantasy metal which is a bit of a disappointment, although this style of metal is big in Italy, Germany and other neighboring countries, it’s not so big in Belgium especially when it nearly all sounds very similar in style.

Although tracks such as “Princess of love”, “Lullaby noir” and “Memories” weren’t too bad there seemed to be lacking variation throughout the CD and on that note I found the CD becoming very boring.

69/100

Peter Brems.