Сегодня слушал Chaos Magic, финский симфонический металл в представлении не нуждается, но тут отдельный случай — присутствует чилийская изюминка в лице вокалистки Катерины Никс, которая и делает звучание группы особенным. Есть два альбома, надеюсь, будут и новые!
Timo Tolkki post-Stratovarius has been a busy bee, with Revolution Renaissance, Timo Tolkki’s Avalon, Symfonia, Allen – Lande, Ring of Fire and his own solo project, almost all of which have received mixed reactions at the very best (at least the ones where he has been responsible for the compositions). So when Chaos Magic came around, seeing him team up with Chilean singer Caterina Nix and the promo sheet blubbering about “develop[ing] the vocal talent of Caterina and show[ing] a diverse side of Timo’s musical talents.” held some interesting potential.
That potential lasted about 4 minutes, before it gave way to the dreaded realization that while Caterina does have vocal talent, the diverse side of the musical talent is just a nice way of putting that Tolkki’s creative juices seemed to just have lasted for the Allen – Lande album and then ran as dry as the years prior. Chaos Magic is one of the possibly least offensive gothic rock/metal albums of the last decade, with the music solely supporting Caterina’s vocal endeavours, but other than that being so shallow that a paralyzed ant won’t be able to drown, no matter how hard she would try.
Сайта у них не нашёл, но у Катерины есть страничка на Facebook
