Allow me to tell you how I will rate my reviews:
Over all musical structure
Lyrical structure
Style
Performance
Vocals (big thing for me. If I can't understand the singer, they're going to lose points)
All reviews are given a rating scale of one to ten, ten being best.
Alright, onto the review!
Band: Divinefire
Album: Into A New Dimension
Label: Rivel Records
Genre: Extreme Symphonic Power Metal
DivineFire...What can I say about DivineFire, other then the fact that they are my favorite band of the genre. I list to A LOT of power metal, but these guys have everything I look for in a band: good, clean vocals, awesome riffs and music that I cannot help but to head-bang, I don't head-bang much! Most of what I do is more like a head-bob then a head-bang. That's what happens when you throw your neck out by head-banging as hard as you can to bands like Tourniquet, Amon Amarth and the like.
I was first introduced to this band by my good friend ShadowFrostJavelin while we where still going through the hellhole that is high school...So glad to be in college now...
At first, I wasn't really all that much into metal when I heard these guys. Before I listened to a lot of Mortification, Tourniquet, Evanescence, Drowning Pool and so on and so forth.
A little side note! Before I was even introduced to metal(and I mean real metal), I used to think that Drowning Pool was the heaviest thing on the planet. Bodies used to be one of my favorite songs, and was my theme for a while. Now, I barely listen to them and when people tell me their the best thing ever, I can't help but chuckle.
After hearing the title track for the album, I was hooked right away. And thus began my search into metal and the lifestyle that followed it. Someone had this to say about metal: "Metal isn't just music, it's a lifestyle, and one that will stick with you until you die." Now I can't remember who it was that said that, but they are spot on. Ever since I became a metalhead, it has become my life. Music is a huge part of it. Without it, I would go crazy. But God is first and foremost, because He made music \m/.
I remember the first two metal songs I was ever introduced to by my other good friend, DarkFireDragoon. He let me listen to Mortification's Terminate Damnation, and Tourniquet's A Dog's Breakfast. Both helped me into the world of metal, and ever since then DFD and I have been showing each other bands that we like, a few of our favs being Judas Priest, Stryper, Tourniquet, Mortification and so on.
Divinefire all around is an amazing band, and when they disbanded because the lead singer, Christian Liljegren, was with too many bands at the time, it made me a little sad. But now I hear that they're reforming the band, and their new album "The Eye of The Storm" is set to come out sometime in 2011
Overall, the band is amazing. Not perfect, but amazing. I would have to give these guys an overall rating of 9.5, because there are some things I don't like about the band. For example, some of the instrumental pieces of the symphonists bore me after a few seconds, which is why the opening track, Vision of A New Dawn, just bores me. Some of the stuff in the songs bug me, like structure and how things come across.
Other then that, they get a 9.5.
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