Produced by Fredrik Nordström
Released: 2003
I have to admit that I didn’t get into Dream Evil’s debut effort as much as many others did, but within seconds of ‘Break the Chains’ blasting out of the speakers here at the Sound Cellar I knew I was listening to a killer metal album. There’s too many labels to attach to metal these days, and it would be easy to apply one to Dream Evil, but in the end what it all boils down do it that this is just true heavy metal like classic Maiden and Priest, fast, catchy and deceptively simple songs with hook-laden riffs, great vocals and endless air-punching choruses. Guided by the vision of guitarist and keyboard player Fredrik Nordström, who also happens to be one of Sweden’s top metal producers, Dream Evil combines all the best elements of all the best heavy metal there is, from thrasy power metal like ‘By My Side’ and the aforementioned opening track, to truly classic anthemic stuff like ‘Children of the Night’ that sounds like in was recorded in California in the mid-1980s!
There really isn’t a bad song on here. Even cheese like ‘Made of Metal’ is palatable and the power ballads ‘Forevermore’ and ‘The End’ are just as catchy and well-construted as the rest, without being the overwrought dreck such things have become these days. Evilized is 100% pure metal, and it doesn’t come much better than that.
- Break the Chains
- By My Side
- Fight You til the End
- Evilized
- Invisible
- Bad Dreams
- Forevermore
- Children of the Night
- Live a Lie
- Fear the Night
- Made of Metal
- The End
Rating: 82%
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