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So, it's about time to cite an info-flyer of a record-label: "The press compares the style of JESTER'S TEARS with bands like GAMMA RAY, FATES WARNING, ANGRA and partly also QUEENSRYCHE." May I object? I have listened to this album for a few times and I have neither found GAMMA RAY nor ANGRA! The other two bands, well in some parts you could find some connection, but to compare them? Well...
And quality-wise they are even farther away, because what they offer us here on their first complete album is Melodic Metal with a few progressive elements, which remains stuck in mediocrity. The sometimes quite unharmonic choir/chorus-passages don't exactly help either.
And the intro "Inside" with this strange pig-grunts might have turned out to be quite amusing, but if it's elongated to more than three minutes, it's just getting unnerving!
Overall a very mediocre album, in each aspect, what brings up the question, who should buy it in these times of millions of releases each week. If I had not received it for free, I wouldn't...
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