Released: 2002
The very name of this Swedish band is a dead giveaway as to what they're going to sound like, and if you guessed melodic Euro-power metal then you would be spot on the mark. Add a goodly helping of Malmsteen-like shredding to the formula and Meduza's picture becomes clearer and that, dear readers, is as plain as a nose on a face.
Now and Forever is yet another release from the generic European power metal school where the only necessary qualifications seem to be a singer with a high-range vocal style and a spectacularly flashy guitar player. Of course, it isn't that Meduza is a bad band, but their wholly unoriginal and less than inspired approach to a genre that's been painfully beaten to death makes them a patently unspectacular one, a band that seems content to just grind along the track already blazed for them by the likes of Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica without really branching off to explore any new territory of their own.
If you're into this type of thing, you'll probably like Meduza but they'll hardly set your world afire.
- Now and Forever
- Holy Ground
- Hounds of Hell
- Sleep
- Touch the Sky
- I Will Rise
- Twilight of My Mind
- Shed No Tears
- Curse of Pharaoh
- Land of Forgotten Dreams
- Burn in Hell
Rating: 30%
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