Review

This is the debut of Athena band, a powerful disc with only one negative aspect: the singer Alessio Mosti, in substitution of Fabio Lione, that feel sicked when the band record the album. By the way, after sometimes you hear the album, you not perceive more this problem.

The album open with a instrumental introduction, "Prelude To A Dream", a climatic and powerful music that prepare the terrain for "Forest Of Sound", one of the great musics of this debut. In sequel we have "Wind Of Illusion", the best music in the album, with superb vocal lines (of course, I'm talking about the melody, not the performance) and impressive arrangements, that remind me to Dream Theater's "Images And Words" album! "Deserts" are a progressive music with beauty riffs, "Waterfalls" are good, "Memories" too, "Crystal Eyes" are strange in the beginning, but when vocal begin to sing the melody turns extremely beauty! "Inside The Moon" had a sad and emotional instrumental parts, and "Unlocked Dreams" close the album with great efficiency.

If you have the opportunity to acquire this album, don't think two times, it's a great debut, of course, if you don't like melodic, progressive, and climatic music, don't pass near!

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