The second album from this band from Tunisia.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, darbouka, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
Some guests added darbouka, naii, guitars and strings.
I was not overly impressed by their debut album and stated so in my review earlier this year. Too much run-of-the-mill power/prog metal for my liking.
On the follow up album, Desert Call, the band started to explore and indeed implement their Arabic and North-African culture. This particular goes for North-African and Arabic traditional music. Folk music is the right label.
The band still plays pretty heavy progressive metal. Some of the songs on this just over one hour long album has only a few folk rock elements. Other songs are a mix of folk rock and progressive metal.
The vocals are good and the band does a good job throughout this album.
The songs are a mix of decent and good quality. There is no real killer tracks here and not much someone who are not fans of the power and progressive metal genre will regard as great music. Their folk rock elements is pioneering though and this album has rightfully a status as a groundbreaking semi-classical album in that genre.
2.5 points
No comments:
Post a Comment