Not despair or agony, but bittersweet melancholy. Several choruses and parts throughout the album build similar atmospheres actually. While the double bass drum thunder, the colossal keyboard patterns and the majestic vocals of Fabio Lione might have sounded familiar, the chorus choir evokes a feeling basically never heard before in Rhapsody's music. It was really about time they did something like this.Īt least by the time the swift opener "Rising from Tragic Flames" launches into its chorus you're bound to realize there's some new stuff going on here. After that, even when they were at their best like on 2010's "The Frozen Tears of Angels", they were mostly rehashing old ideas and not really going anywhere. The last Rhapsody album I found to be truly memorable was 2002's "Power of the Dragonflame".
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