Band: Dreamland
Album title: Exit 49
Label: Dockyard 2
Distributor: /
Release date: 25/09/2009
Release: CD

Dreamland is one of the many self-proclaimed bands that wants to us back to 80s metal. A big risk for this Swedish melodic metal band that was formed in 2003 in Sweden.
Exit 49 (their third studio album that follows in the footsteps of Future's Calling and Eye For An Eye) takes that typical 80s metal sound but incorporates modern effects.

Although I’m born in that era, I wasn’t really aware of the music scene at that moment. So if I think back at music then, I picture Metallica at their best, Megadeth trying harder and others that have risen to a star status. But I can’t imagine something like this.
For me this isn’t 80’s metal but glam metal. Although the music isn’t that bad, the album isn’t very appealing and doesn’t have that “I wanna have that” effect you got when your favorite band releases a new cd.

68/100

Jeroen.