Nova Francia - Discovery Of A New Land

Here is another promo we have received from Frowz. It is a "Best Of" released by this label so far. After an excellent "Viking Intro", Quo Vadis is the first band to play on Discovery Of A New Land with their song Mute Requiem. In general, first songs of this type of CD are excellent and Quo Vadis will not fail to impressed me with their fast black metal song (Dimmu Borgir or Immortal being not to far of course). Second song (The Fortune Teller, Martyr), a mixture of neo-metal and hard core, is a bit technical. If Martyr's goal was to impressed us when they wrote that song, this is exact what happen to me. Still being too much hard-core for my taste, The Fortune Teller will pleased many hard-core fans out there. Transcendence continues with The Blind Side and here comes a wonderful female voice. If you had the chance to listen the last Lacuna Coil record, Transcendence is playing the same type of music. I am quiet impressed by her vocals, because if I close my eyes, I am sure this is Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil who is singing on this track. Anyway ... excellent atmospheric song. Lordz and their Typhoon explode my neck with their heavy metal coming straight from the 80's (reminding me a lot Centurion actually). The very bad production kills the entire song. What a shame! Ontos On playing continues with a black metal song (I guess it is a demo, because the sound is coming from .... so far). Anhkrehg (what a name!) is delivering us a black metal song (remember first Raise Hell record Holy Target) and even though the drum sound is too bad for my taste, these guys knows how to execute fast guitar riffs. 16 songs and I can say this Discovery Of A New Land turns to be a Heavy Metal Encyclopedia from Canada (underground I guess). For more info, go to www.frowz.com.