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Until The Sun Rise Again

    
       
       
       
     
             
Trend Kill Ghosts are a power metal band from Brazil formed in 2018, releasing their debut album 'Kill Your Ghosts' in 2019. Bucking the usual South American trend of extreme or thrash metal bands, Trend Kill Ghosts chose the power metal path - their debut album featuring a number of special guests, such as vocalists Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear), Raphael Dantas (Ego Absence), and Lucia Ricardo (ex EvenDusk). The band have toured with the likes of Accept, Elvenking and W.A.S.P. and have just released their second album 'Until The Sun Rise Again', featuring special guest vocalists Marina La Torraca (Phantom Elite, Avantasia) and Elisa C. Martin (Hamka).    
             
The new album features eleven songs over fifty minutes, covering every aspect of the power metal genre. The one minute intro 'Marching To The Light' is full of anticipation, and epically atmospheric, giving way to the scorching 'Puppets Of Faith'. Full of pace and electrifying energy, 'Puppets Of Faith' is borderline symphonic metal, powering on with intense purpose and intent. What a blistering start! And with 'Rebellion' crashing in at a heavier tempo but with just as much electrifying energy and pace, the blistering start becomes an emphatic opening double. Blimey what an amazing two songs. 'Phoenix' maintains the pace and power, adding a more traditional metal feel, the familiar "foot on the monitor" gallop making its presence felt. And that electrifying pace - simply stunning.    
             
I'm guessing that 'When The Sunrise Again' is probably the albums title song - a scorching continuation of the pace and power the album began with. 'When The Sunrise Again' - like all the songs on offer - borders the symphonic metal genre, the album sitting proudly in the power metal genre, with plenty of pride and passion to make its presence felt. And for the first time the high velocity pace drops, with the more mid paced and melodic 'Land Of Hope' - lumbering forward with huge levels of bombast and punch. 'Poisoned Soul' returns the all out power metal pace of earlier, fairly scorching the Earth as it hurtles across the land. Over the years, I have tended to find that guest vocalists can alter the identity of a bands sound and image. Yet with Trend Kill Ghosts, I've found the bands sound to take a much larger and up front position in their identity - and any reservation I had regarding the bands identity has, on this occasion, taken a back seat.    
             
Moving swiftly on, 'Prisoners In Our Minds' maintains the albums breathless intensity, albeit at the heaviest levels so far. For 'Prisoners In Our Minds' mixes heavy foot stomping thunder with the bands blistering power metal roots. And the melodious intent has just risen through the fucking roof - 'Puzzle Piece' displaying an energetic almost party anthem swagger. Symphonic metal has definitely taken a back seat here, along with all bombast and punch, in favour of a mighty melodic, mid tempo, majestic march. With its mellow and serene intro, 'Dead Society' seems to be heading into ballad territory...until the one minute thirty second mark when bish bash bosh and we're flying like a rocket at high velocity - pace and power fully restored. And the intensity too! And at six and a half minutes, 'Dead Society' is also the longest song on offer. Heading to the final song, we've blitzed through a modern day power metal album without a single power ballad in sight - definitely a plus point from me - the album coming to a close with the fast paced power metaller 'Mirror Mirror'. A cracking finish to what has been a very good album.    
             
Overall, a blistering power come symphonic metal romp, 'Until The Sun Rise Again' is a red hot scorcher of infectious and highly addictive songs.    
             
             
Review by Iron Mathew Collins    
             
Reviewed for Metal Gods TV    
             
             
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