11/02/02

SINERGY / SUICIDE BY MY SIDE

The female fronted Power Metal band return with a strong 3rd album, you only have to listen to the crushing power chords of opening track "Spit On Your Grave" to realize where they are coming from.

All the song’s are memorable and performed with professional ease, "Violated" and "Written In Stone" demonstrate Kimberly Goss’s strong vocal talent’s to their fullest but that is not distracting form the rest of the band, especially the guitarist Alexi Laiho who also puts in a very strong vocal performance himself on the track "Shadow Island" an almost operatic over the top piece that to my mind is the best of the bunch.

This CD is not going to convert any one but never the less it is a superb album if a little too short, but that seems to be the trend at the moment, a definite thumbs up from the Justin Case camp.

TOTAL PLAYING TIME = 38 mins = 10 tracks