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My first acquaintance with the
Swiss band Felony has been a great experience and they have really
touched something in me with their songs. Their debut First Works
landed in my mail box a few weeks ago and until then they have
been a hidden jewel for me. After listening over and over to the
album a lot of times lately, I must say I`m a bit surprised that
they compared to many other bands in their genre don`t have a
record deal yet. The band has financed the album themselves and
also done most of the work with recording in Markus home studio,
except for the mix of the album and the drums who was recorded in
Sascha Paeth`s studio in Germany.
Felony has in many ways managed to create a really colorful album by
mixing together Melodic Metal and Symphonic Classical Metal.
Another unique thing about Felony is that they mix male and female
vocals, something that gives the band much more opportunities to
create diverse and colorful songs. This band isn`t like the Beauty
and the beast thing we are familiar with in the gothic metal
scene, with the male growls and the soprano female voice, but
instead Felony has chose to use two normal rock voices in all
their songs to get their perfect style. The songs cover a
time-period of over 10 years, and the band had about 30 songs to
choose from for their debut. The last years the band has
rearranged, altered and improved some of their old songs together
with newer material and the result has become twelve songs and not
a duffer amongst`em. Every one a classic of its kind!
The powerful orchestral intro An Introduction To... sets the
scene, before we fly into the first song What A Felony. A song who
lyrically deals about drugs and what the result can be by using
them. The song is an uptempo classical melodic metal song with
perfect mixed female and male vocals, the chorus is very addictive
and the instrumental part with guitar and keyboards is just
awesome! Say Goodbye is much more commercial, but what a cool
song! The chorus and the keyboards are very rememberable and will
get stuck in your head immediately: A HIT! Justice starts slow
like a ballad, but it builds up gradually to a faster tempo, great
chorus and mix of female and male vocals in this song who
lyrically deals about being accused for things you haven`t done.
My Way opens with some really great riffs, who is the main theme
in the song, a cool chorus and a nice flute part take the song to
big heights, one of my favorites! Tonite is another of my
favorites. I think this song sum up in a perfect way the different
styles that Felony has from ballad like parts to more uptempo, a
great guitarsolo and great singing from both Andreas and Andrea
give the song a nice mood. Freedom is a more commercial song, in a
way a bit like Say Goodbye, but more metal oriented and faster.
The switch between the male and female vocals in the chorus is
cool! Promising Heart is the only ballad on the album and here you
will get the chance to hear the strenght in Andrea and Andreas
voices: beautiful song! After The Rain perfectly mixes elements
from classical music with metal, nice chorus and small
instrumental parts with nice details from every member. Cyberspace
is more commercial and like Say Goodbye and Freedom I think this
song has hit potential and maybe it will be the first video from
the band. Disappointed has much guitars and is one of the heaviest
songs on the album. It`s also the song with most female vocals and
I think there are some progressive tendencies in it, like On
Life’s End who closes this superb album.
I can say it right now that this album will be one of the big
highlights for me in 2005! I will say that this album is one of
the strongest I`ve ever heard in its special genre, so if you`re a
fan of Visions Of Atlantis, Lunatica, Royal Hunt and Syrens Call,
you can`t let this fine release from Felony go by you!
by Arne Asbolmo |
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