You're looking for epic heavy metal with catchy melodies and sung in chorus by an entire audience : I have what you need with the first studio album of the singer of ‘Astral Doors', 'Nils Patrik Johansson'. After an introduction worthy of a horror movie, the metal efficient tube machine is launched for almost an hour of music with the title track of the album that delivers the first melody that you immediately enter the head then 'Estonia' drives the point home with an air with Slavic influences and imposing choruses while the following title 'Gasoline' is more classic in a power metal style that looks like certain titles of 'Scorpions' especially a the voice of 'Nils Patrik Johansson' is close to that of 'Klaus Meine'. The sequel continues in this epic atmosphere with the mid tempo 'How the West Was Won', the speed 'September Black', the heavy 'Kings and Queens' or the catchy 'Dark Evolution', the album ending on the offbeat 'A Waltz for Paris' which on a waltz tempo involves a piano and an accordion. In summary, this first solo album 'Evil Delixe' by 'Nils Patrik Johansson', even if it does not bring real news, is a bit of a summary of the career of this singer with his different formations and should therefore be well received by all lovers of heavy metal in general... | |
