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Sunrise - Liberty
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Artist...............: Sunrise
Album................: Liberty
Genre................: Power Metal
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 2007
Ripper...............: NMR
Codec................: LAME 3.97
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 223kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:05:48) Sunrise - Born To Find
2. (00:03:31) Sunrise - Gone With The Time
3. (00:06:27) Sunrise - Illusion Of Life
4. (00:06:02) Sunrise - Lies & Truth
5. (00:07:41) Sunrise - Hear Me
6. (00:03:36) Sunrise - Stay With Me
7. (00:03:05) Sunrise - Look To Eternity
8. (00:06:10) Sunrise - Inside Of The Rising Sun
9. (00:05:09) Sunrise - Can You Feel The Pain
10. (00:05:26) Sunrise - Travel
11. (00:06:33) Sunrise - Untitled Bonus Track
Playing Time.........: 00:59:26
Total Size...........: 94.43 MB
NFO generated on.....: 18/10/2008 09:30:25

Konstantin Naumenko - vocals (Tin' Sontsya)
Vitaliy Petrychenko - guitars
Vladimir Ovcharov - guitars
Sergey Moroz - drums
Alexander Nazarenko - bass
Eduard Fefer - keyboards

I'm telling you folks, some of the best power metal is coming out of Russia and the neighboring Ukraine right now. While Sweden, Finland, Italy and Germany were providing the best power metal bands early in the decade, many of them are changing direction and style, and it's the Russian and Ukrainian bands that are now playing that popular power metal style that all of us were going nuts over earlier in the decade. One new band is Sunrise from Ukraine, and with their debut 'Liberty', this young band already has the talent and songwriting skills to make a name for themselves in the power metal world.

Unlike many of their coutrymen, Sunrise has chosen to use English lyrics, so this is not a Russian-language CD, and although I'm very fond of Russian-language bands (as you all know), vocalist Konstantin Naumento has such a wonderful and clear voice that I'd be happy with whatever language he sung in. I must admit that it's been really nice to understand what he's saying, but musically, you can still hear some similarities to Russian-language bands like Epidemia, Charizma, Arda, Callisto, Decuman Wave, Retriem and so on. However, because this is an English-language CD, the overall best band comparisons would be the popular and large group that contains Thunderstone, Sonata Arctica, Destination's Calling, Dreamtale, Nightscape, Stratovarius, Arida Vortex, Twilightning (early), Cardiant, Supreme Majesty, Celesty and Moonville.

So by now I've surely got your attention, but let me tell you that what makes this CD so great (besides Konstantin's vocals) is definitely the guitar work. Featuring 2 guitarists, Vitaliy Petrychenko and Vladimir Ovcharov, Sunrise offers up plenty of sweet lead guitar work and some of the best guitar solos I've heard in the last few years. These guys are young, but they're certainly competitive with other guitarists from any power metal band out there. Plus, although I've always liked keyboards with metal, there aren't too many keys, as Eduard Fefer keeps them in the background for the most part, leaving the guitarists to truly shine.<div class="clear-left">