Band: Empires Of Eden
Album title: Reborn In Fire
Label: 7Hard
Distributor: 7Hard
Release date: 16/07/2010
Release: CD

Empires of Eden is actually a project guitar player Stu Marshall created. Marshall is best known as a member of the Sydney metal band Dungeon with whom he recorded three albums and toured, but it wasn’t until the band disbanded and after several other projects that Stu created this melodic metal band called Empires of Eden.

The bands philosophy is to give all the musicians the freedom to produce the work they need to do and to have fun doing it. This is a cool concept but doesn’t work always, you’ll notice this when hearing the album that there are parts in songs that may sound strange and awkward, don’t get me wrong this is interesting but for people who don’t know a lot of music theory it can be a bit of a downer.

Also the band draws its inspiration from diverse bands like Iron maiden, Arch Enemy, Gamma Ray and Cacophony. Now I couldn’t find Arch enemy influences in the music, but all the others are present. While keeping in mind that the people who are on the record are top musicians, you know you’re in for a party.

Only downside is that the album is a bit on the short side with only 9 songs and again keep in mind that some parts will sound strange to you. Other than that, enjoy the party

89/100

Jeroen.