Eternal Flight (demo)

One thing I must get off of my chest before the rest of the review continues, please read the unsigned / independent bands reviews. By doing so you will help out the underground metal scene tremendously and think about it, even Helloween started somewhere. If you see a review of an unsigned band that sounds like it might interest you, c'mon man send em the five bucks for their three track cd or at the very least download them. Please, support the underground metal scene buy / trade demos!. Anyways, foreword aside, this week I am reviewing France's Eternal Flight with their self titled four song demo. The first track here is a short "obligitory instrumental intro" track, which on an album helps create mood but on a demo I just see it as a waste of space and could have been used for another song. To me, a demo should be around 4-8 tracks, NO "obligitory instrumental intro" songs, NO instrumetnals, make the demo consist of your speedy most powerful numbers and maybe at the end have a well done ballad. For a prime example on how to do a demo check out Thunderstone's five song demo (also reviewed here on metalreviews). Alright well back to Eternal Flight. The first real song on here comes in the form of Beyond (the Golden Gate). It's fairly typical Power Metal, played a bit slower but still has the double bass, and the vocals are fairly good here as well. The song lacks a strong, catchy chorus though and because of this it suffers a great deal, the guitar solo though salvages this weak spot a little bit but not all the way. The next song Back Into the Light (Renaissance) is a slower mid tempo track with the keys being placed more up front. The singing is also more restrained and the vocals sound alot better. However despite this improvement Eternal Flight have yet to give me a song that has a catchy STRONG chorus, once again despite the good music being played this kinda seems to drag on for awhile. The final track Guardians (no its not a Helloween cover) is the stronger of the three full songs mainly because it has some memorable chantlike prechoruses which make it memorable. Guardians is also a midtempo type song but there arent many keyboards its mainly guitar driven. One other thing I must mention, around the two minute mark the vocals become very strong and powerfully sung. Well, all in all Eternal Flight is a straightforward a little above average demo. It sounds very raw and rough and in some spots even a bit unfocused. This wont srike you in the face with its greatness but Id suggest checking this band out if you like "raw" Power Metal.