CATHARSIS
'Dea'

(Points: 8.5 out of 10)
On the one and only Turkish label are two new releases, CEMETERY OF SCREAM (a Death metal band, so not reviewed by us) and CATHARSIS (a very interesting Progressive Metal band). CATHARSIS is unlike most other bands on their label not coming out of Turkey, no, this is a band from Russia! So, we have here a high quality Russian band with a CD release on a Turkish label. The band has been around for almost 6 years now and they already released quite a few demos and albums, and this new release is their third CD. 'Dea' is a very well produced melodic progressive/power metal album in the style of ANGRA, TIME MACHINE, KAMELOT, SYMPHONY X… There are only 7 tracks on the CD, and with a playing length of hardly 36 minutes, I could almost call this a mini-CD, but it's the music that counts, and I have to say that CATHARSIS is quite a promising band for the future. They will definitely become one of the best Russian bands ever, because by far they are already better on this CD than the stuff GORKY PARK and AVTOGRAF ever released in their heydays. Songs like "A trip into elysium" (great instrumental midtempo bombastic progrock/metal), "My love, the phiery" (interesting keyboards, excellent uptempo prog) and "Pro memoria" (perfect prog metal) are showing that CATHARSIS are almost as good as well-known acts like ANGRA and KAMELOT. The keyboards by the female keyboardplayer Julia Egorova are sometimes quite notable, and give the music of CATHARSIS an own approach. The production is also very good, and therefore this is a highly recommended Russian Prog Metal band, for more info go to: http://www.hammermuzik.com
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