Band: Nightmare
Album title: One Night Of Insurrection
Label: AFM Records
Distributor: Rock Inc. - Bertus
Release date: 25/02/2011
Release: CD

Nightmare is a heavy/power metal band that was formed in 1979 and comes forth from France. The band was influenced by the British heavy metal but later on got interested in combining this with Death metal and trash metal influences. At that point the band did knew some success, opening up shows for bigger names, record deals,… but it didn’t last that long and it got quite.
But the band took another chance in 1999 with a revised line-up. Jo Amore, former drummer, took the singer position and left the sticks to his younger brother. The ball started rolling again and the band got another record deal. Not only that worked out, even their older albums got reissued.
So the band has been around for some time now and the wanted to celebrate that and spoil the fans. What better way to do that than with a live album, the bands first one ever.
Well, the album gives everything what the band promised. Power metal combined with death and trash metal riffs and licks in a cool live vibe, and a good sound quality were the fans have been waiting on for ages.
However there is one element that will annoy everyone, there is a gap of a second or two between every song. This is not that strange on a record but on a live record were the sound gets cut of during a fade out or when the front man is talking to the audience. This is one small negative element on the record that does make a big deal considering the guys have been around for such a long time and made a stupid mistake of such a mood killer.

72/100

Jeroen.