Wings Of Fury - Everlasting Emptiness

In the beginning it was kind of hard for me to take this stuff seriously, but considering that this is a genre that has many followers I felt obligated to look at it objective and create a decent review.

 

First of all, the female vocals are very good. A nice vibrato and a lot of high tones that are never out of tone. This is also the strongest asset of this band on disc. The male vocals are just plain irritating. The supposedly evil grunts sound like shit. Reasonably atmospheric in the context of the music, but mainly like shit.

 

Now for the music, I’ve seen them play and know what they’re capable of and my honest opinion is that they have a magnificent guitarist that should really pursue a career in a death metal band. He played quite difficult guitar parts without even looking at his guitar. I think that this band is only holding him back. Now besides the thin (pretty raw mixed) guitar sound that is quite standard for a gothic metal band the riffs sound quite ok.

But then I have to talk about the drums, which isn’t going to help this review. A lot further than some standard Saxon-like pounding, this guy doesn’t manage. You know, I like some poeka every now and then, but if that should be in gothic, I’m not to sure about that. The sound of the drums is very poor as well, making the structures even less clear.

The synthesizers sound very well though. Probably the best mixed instrument together with the female vocals. They’re very atmospheric.

 

Overall I think that this record is a nice business card to arrange some shows, but a lot of work needs to be done in this band. They are very lucky to have this vocalist and guitarist, but I think that they might need some other musicians in their line-up to get the best result.