Year : 2023
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal , Female vocals
Country: Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 83 mb
Bio:
Rexoria, a female-fronted melodic metal band with folk influences from Sweden, was formed in 2016. The quartet spread around the word fast and toured for two weeks in eight countries with Bloodbound, Thobbe Englund (former Sabaton guitarist) & Polish metal band Crystal Viper and played 35 shows in total within the first year after its founding with bands such as Hardcore Superstar, Raubtier, Electric Boys, Slade, Backyard Babies, ToxicRose, Billion Dollar Babies, Entombed A.D and Smash Into Pieces. In November 2017, they supported Battle Beast and Dynazty in Sweden.Vocalist Frida Ohlin was nominated in the Swedish competition "Årets rockröst 2016" (The Rock Voice 2016). The band’s EPs “Moments Of Insanity” (2016) and “The World Unknown” (2017) are currently available on Spotify. “Queen Of Light” is their first full-length album. The CD was recorded in the first half of October 2017 at Trampolin Recordings in Gothenburg, Sweden with producer and mixing engineer Henrik Pettersson and mastered by Jeffro Lackscheide in the USA.
Album:
Rexoria is back with their third studio album, where they have taken their sound to the next level. Strong melodies, heavy riffs and peculiar keyboard loops make "Imperial Dawn" a must in your record shelf. Stefan Helleblad''s (Within Temptation) mix, and Thomas "Plec" Johansson''s mastering, elevate it even further. The album ranges from new electronic hard rock to emotional folk-inspired songs. A record that will appeal to even the most discerning listener.Sweden’s Rexoria re-enter the fray in 2023 with their third full-length effort, Imperial Dawn. And very nice it is too.Unfortunately for Frida Ohlin and her band band of brothers, ‘nice’ doesn’t really cut it in today’s ultra-competitive pop metal world, and there’s simply too much material on Imperial Dawn that simply goes in one ear and out the other to make this a true contender in the band’s chosen class.There’s nothing here that’s actively offensive, you understand – indeed closing track Enchantedisland is excellent and allows the band to exit on a high – but tracks like Paradigm offer nothing new to the game, happy instead to mimick already established names (in this case Metalite), right down to the uplifting Eurovision-style key change towards songs’ end.Did someone mention Metalite? That band’s leading light, Edwin Premberg, lends his key tinkling talents to the album, and Within Temptation‘s Stefan Helleblad mixed it, whilst renowned mastering expert Thomas ‘Plec’ Johansson added his not insubstantial talents in that department, so this is a band that can obviously call on the great and the good of Euro metal to lend a hand; which makes the presentation of rather anodyne material like Devious Desire all the more frustrating to the listener. Again it’s not horrible – you’d rather hear this on the radio than, say, Post Malone – but time and again whilst listening to Imperial Dawn you find yourself wishing that the band would just occasionally break the shackles of convention and go for broke.The band are all obviously good players and writers – as the truly exciting Rage And Madness evinces as everything clicks and the band really go for the throat – and I for one would love to see them underline that fact by delivering some truly challenging heavy metal next time around.
Line-Up:
Frida Ohlin - Vocals (2016-present)
Cristofer Svensson - Guitars (2016-present)
Jonas Gustavsson - Guitars (2016-present) - See also: ex-Tripod
Martin Gustavsson - Drums (2016-present) - See also: ex-Tripod
Tracklist:
01. Paradigm
02. The New Revolution
03. Devious Desire
04. Rage and Madness
05. Fading Rose
06. Light Up the Sky
07. Horizon
08. Set Me on Fire
09. Crushing for More
10. Enchanted Island
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/
