Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Blacksmith Tales - Pathway to Hamlet's Mill (2024)

The second album from this band from Italy.

The band is a sextet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, piano, keyboards, synths and vocals.

The band is back again after a three years long pause. 

I reviewed their 2021 debut album The Dark Presence back in 2021 for # 2 of this blog. That album had a mix of neo-prog, pomp rock and RPI.

The band continues down the same path on this, the follow up album. The music is again a mix of pomp rock, neo-prog and RPI.

Most of the music is bombastic pomp rock with some goth rock influences. There is also plenty of neo-prog here and one RPI song.

The vocals are both male and female. There is one Italian vocals song here and the rest are in English.

Some of the music sounds cheesy and a bit over the top. That RPI song is very good though. More of those on the third album, please..... 

The pomp rock bits are cheesy, bombastic and good. The songs on this forty-five minutes long album is indeed well crafted and therefore good. 

Beware of the cheese... but check out this good album.

3 points

 

 


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