'Inner Stream' is a new formation produced by the Argentinian 'Guillermo De Medio' who is also one of the producers of a certain 'Tarja' and their first album 'Stain the Sea' was released in July 2021. Led by singer 'Inés Carolina Vera Ortiz' who is also the group's songwriter, they mix symphonic and melodic metal, with direct and effective compositions in a format not exceeding 4 minutes. This is what 'Massive Drain' attests, which begins the album with a mid-tempo composition accompanied by heavy guitar riffs in which 'Inés Carolina Vera Ortiz', who had made a name for herself with very beautiful covers (see 'Elan' from 'Nightwish' ici), shows all her talent in a clear singing with a powerful voice that she knows remarkably modulate according to the intensity of the moment. Then parade effective titles with memorable choruses and we can quote the catchy 'Fair War', 'Stain the Sea' and 'Last Drink'. In a less sustained rhythm, they also offer us mid-tempos which are just as effective with, for example, 'Hunt You' with remarkable alternations of intensity or 'If You Dare' and its rhythm which should make a whole audience headbang in concert, marked tempo that we also find on 'The Bridge' or 'Real' which ends the album and which could be a clever mix between 'Delain' et 'Within Temptation'. And finally, they have concocted to us two very beautiful ballads that follow each other in the middle of the album with the power ballad 'Dance with Shades' and 'Drown Me' a little more refined than the first.
In summary, we will certainly have to count in the future on this new symphonic metal group because the Argentines of 'Inner Stream' have all the assets to become a major formation in this style if they continue to deliver us albums of this quality... | |
