Rhapsody

Dawn Of Victory

(3.5 stars) Not as good as Power of Dragonflame

Review Score:

(6/10)
I absolutly had to pick this record up after purchasing Power of the Dragonflame (the bands 4th album). After a few listens to this one though I must say that even though I did enjoy it, it wasn't anywhere close to the near perfection of the later record. Dawn of Victory is Rhapsody's 3rd album and a good one too. There are 10 tracks on this one and I would say about 6 are worth listening to. The album starts off pretty weak with more of the bland dialogue that I disliked about the 4th album and the first 2 tracks were pretty good at best(the musicianship just wasn't as inspired as the 4th album). As soon as track 3 hit though I was blown away, what a wonderful melodic and enchanting piece of music! This is undoubtably the best off the album. The next few tracks aren't quite as good but still worth hearing because they are good songs. The "Trolls in the Dark" instrumental is one of the coolest power metal instrumentals I've heard in the genre, its fast guitar riffs and choir chorus easily take your imagination away from the riggers of daily life; unfortunately, like a lot of metal instrumentals from progressive bands, it's cut too short (a mere 2 and a half minutes). After this i felt that although track 9 was good, it dragged itself out towards the end and track 10 on top of being dragged out too long, wasn't a good song to begin with.
Overall, this is a good CD that rhapsody fans will enjoy but if you want to get into them or epic power metal as a whole I'd highly recommend the 4th album. This one's lacking some inspiration.

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