FIRESIDE
Castle of My Soul
CD-R

"Without any background information or homapage to my support I just had to trust my ears and feelings what this demo would give. And I have say that the band are not anykind of beginners. Altough the booklet names only two members of the band - vocalist Roberto and Guitarist/Bassist Steve, other band is making theirs job very well. The Compositions are quite good totally, but sometimes they feel quite strange.
Playing goes well. Keyboards gives nice background color to songs without beeing too dominant. There is some guitarheroic on the air which has still let to kind a background with good taste. Despite slight "moan" sound the singer is quite good and the singer is skilled with his singing range with solo and choirs side also. Background singing is just like in other bands... but what was the meaning of that very strong echo in the solo singing..?? It is spoiling the atmosphere a little bit.. Drums sounds like drumming-machine and knocking.(Who knows, maybe it was drumming machine??? Hard to say anything becouse drummer were not mentioned on the infos). Bass playing is typical. This sound a little bit like "project". And Compositions are partly like a some kind of background music, which dont give anything to the listener. Not bad butt.. Maybe reason for that is the style which has been inspired by the many different genres and then mix with basic "hero-metal". There is some snarl also, which is actually more funny than impressive. Totally this is nice demo. I wish I would know more about these guys, this kind of a uncertainty will not help record company to make decision about signing this band. Witch could be possible with this band.

-Marko Heino - Imperiumi.net

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