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Review:
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Infidia are a melodic metal outfit from Slovenia who
were founded way back in late 2004. After a 2007 EP they
have now, released this, their debut album. Their music
is Lunatica/Visions of Atlantis esque galloping melodic
power metal, subtly symphonic, full of catchy choruses,
driving guitars and twinkling keys. The tantalising Tina
Kic has a clear pop/rock voice rather than operatics or
metal histrionics, and they use band harmonies instead of
a choir. Together with the excellent production, and brevity
of double peddling (or it’s well buried), all these ingredients
give the whole album a fresh, vibrant, up-tempo but powerful
pop metal sound. All the track are rather good, but highlights
include ‘Vision’, ‘Salvation’, ‘Thirteen’ (video on Female
Voices Blog), ‘The Dreamer and the Nightmare’, the touching
‘One Last Memory’ simply narrated by guitarist Uros Erste
with an accompaniment of cute Katja Sevsek’s tinkling piano,
and the power ballad ‘Like No Tomorrow’. ‘Viva Forever’
is a Spice Girls cover of all things, but it fits seamlessly
into the album, in fact I didn’t realise what it was until
read the booklet. I checked the original (the things I suffer
for the sake of Ravenheart!) and it is totally unrecognisable,
they could have changed a few words and claimed it was theirs!
On reflection, I really like this album, it’s just my cup
of tea, and if you also love melodic and symphonic power
metal, then you can grab a copy at their Myspace is http://www.myspace.com/28026209
, a most welcome 9 out of 10.
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