Stargate

If I'm not mistaken, this album is Stormwind's first album, which was first release in japan only. I prefer the first european released album (Resurrection), in other words the second (previously release) one... are you lost ? (that's normal :)). With other words, this one is inferior than the Resurrection album. Stormwind reminds me a lot Yngwie Malmsteen (he plays in the last track by the way), and frankly I can't find too much originality in the songs, like other Malmsteen wanna be bands (why I'll never understand but that's another subject) and tends to get quickly boring and quite worthless albums in the end. Now I can't seem to determine if the vocals are taken care by a male or a female here... After 15 minutes of delibaration I'd say a female , but I might be wrong. I think it wasn't the case in the previous (next actually ! :)) record. Production is nice without being perfect. The guitar melodies can be very nice like on the song Time Won't Tell, but the overall originality is once again, for that kind of album, a great weakness. I'm really being bored by all these albums resembling one another, and maybe its time for some people to start writing their own music, the scene's full with too many bands already, many talented ones and having copycats of these bands doesn't add that much to the scene if you ask me. Boring, next please.