Released by: Inner Wound Recordings
Release Date: April 29th, 2011
Genre: Melodic Metal
Links: www.myspace.com/enboundband
Links: http://enbound.com/
Line Up:
Marvin Flowberg – Guitar
Mike Cameron Force – Drums
Lee Hunter- Vocals
Swede – Bass
Tracklist:
01. Combined The Souls
02. Descending
03. Noiseless Bullet
04. Squeals Of War
05. Frozen To Be Feat. LaGaylia Frazier
06. Under A Spell
07. Untitled X
08. I Am Lost To You
09. Shifting Gears
10. Love Has Come
11. The Broken Heart
12. Running Free
13. Me And Desire
14. Beat It [European CD bonus track]
Another one of these new melodic metal bands to attack the scene, this time the name of the group is Enbound and Inner Wound’s next album release from this band is titled “And She Says Gold”. Enbound was formed in 2006 by Mike Cameron Force, who previously had played with bands like Zonata and Poem, and also worked as a producer for Axenstar, Draconian among others. I now the over hyped machine often plays can diverge attention from a CD, bring down the actual musical experience but, in this case that doesn’t happen.
The strong vocals of Lee Hunter lead the way in much of the record as he gently presses his vocal pipes through high rising chorus after chorus. On the press release it stated that Lee was mostly known for his work with the band “Work of Art”? At first I couldn’t trace but but his real name is actually Lars Säfsund from the Swedish AOR group Work of Art. Pretty excited about that because the man is a terrific vocalist as I mentioned already.
The beautiful arrangements provided by this tight niche in the band lead the ears to digest such killer cuts as the opening track “Combined The Souls” and the almost Symphony X anthem like of “Noiseless Bullet”. The classy tune of “Frozen To Be” has a duet with singer LaGaylia Frazier and bring a sense of a lucid dream with touching embellishments and reminds me a bit of some of Kamelot ballads, very cool track. What could be the bands single “Under A Spell” storms through it’s rampage an enters the fold as one of the faster and more brutal tracks on “Gold”. If you needed to reassure yourself about Lee’s powerful voice, just listen to “Love Has Come” but be careful it may cracks some windows with his amazing high pitch shriek. Ohh My this dude can sing.
A well produced record and also mastered by Björn Engelmann [Rammstein, Primal Fear, Sonata Arctica]. The album took a span of 4 years to finish in its entirety due to the fact the band was having some difficultly finding a capable singer. Needless to say I think they found one. An interesting escape for Lee as some bands of his other band may not ever have heard him in this aggressive form, he pulls it off well regardless. The band’s sound overall is a mix of some early Sonata Arctica (with less frenetic) riff wankery, with more melodic metal bands like Excalion or Dawnless for those Swedish metal freaks out there. In a complete metal experience with 14 tracks some may wonder if it’s too long but with the high quality of material here is easy to digest this one fully. Approved, seal and shipped. Very well recommended here!!!.
Written by Denys
Ratings Denys 9/10
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