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The Indian band Slain has only a short history as they were formed in 2007, and previously released an EP called Before Beyond. Now they are ready to fill the metal sky with more of their quite special music. It's really a mix between hard rock, progressive metal and pop rock, so they cover a great potential market with their songs. It's their debut long play CD, but they perform like they have been at it for years, and already got great praise in international music magazines. Maybe there is not so much metal rock music in India, but Slain do their bit to put India on the metal map with a very good debut album. Their vocalist Judah Sandhy can go very far with his captivating voice, it's powerful and can do several categorizes when it comes to that challenge.
Soldier is a melodic metal song, but a style that most metal fans has to get used to, it's not sincerely European metal so to speak. Superhero gives us good and soft metal with a listenable melodic touch. Spread Your Wings are focused on keyboards and fast guitars, shifting between soft metal and pop, especially they like to include a chorus like it was a genuine pop song. Judgment Call is again this mix between pop and melodic metal, but it holds a good rhythm and quality. The best song on the album is Angel In The Sky, where they have a tremendous power in the guitars, a hard rock song that will surely be a great hit a concerts with Slain, fantastic song. All in all a very decent debut album from the six members of Slain, and Judah Sandhy rising very high. I'm really looking forward to their next album, and hope that they will concentrate on one style only.
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