*. Syrens Call .*

Album: Against Wind and Tide (2006)(EP 5 Track's)
Genre: Prog Metal (Symphonic/Neo Prog Metal)  /  France

I heard a lot of good things about Syren Call, but unfortunately I've never had the luck to listen to the first albums of the band, and I don't know why they had to change their first singer. But I can tell you something, her successor, Soraya Hostens, is an excellent vocalist. Well, I really like the music of their new MCD "Against Wind And Tide" and I have the best hopes for their upcoming new album, because with such compositions, for sure it should be "something". With Syrens Call don't expect any form of Symphonic music or Gothic stuff. Even if they have a female singer, the band plays a nice Progressive Metal. Sometime slow and a bit melancholic (like on "Your Soul Is Mine") or fast and heavy ("Run And Fall") the music of Syren Call is technical and not so "easy". So yes of course, it's not prog a la Dream Theater, but the numerous lines of "technical" keyboards are nice and the work of the two guitarists is good too. You'll be able to find great guitars soli with great catchy riffs and the fact that the music of the band is Prog Metal with a female vocalist, is really original. Finally we can find a band that understood that female singers are a magical plus in Metal if you don't do some bad copycats. This MCD is nice and the sound is really good but I have to note that the band chose (one more time… yes, Wrathchild you will be happy to read this line ) to cover "Enjoy The Silence". I don't know what's happening with this song, maybe that Depeche Mode is promising some royalties to all the bands who want to cover it but even if the "Prog" cover of Syren Call is really cool the metal bands will have to stop with this cover, it's becoming boring yes ! This MCD, is a really good introduction to the music of the band but above all, it's a good way to see that the new singer of Syren Call is a really good vocalist with a really personal and original voice. Let's wait the new upcoming album of course but I have the feeling that we will hear a lot of good things about this band (now I understand why they were featured in the line up of the Female Metal Voice Festival II in Belgium). Review by "Jeff" (www.metalstorm.net).

RATING:  7.75 / 10

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