Book Of The Dead - Bloodbound

'Book of the Dead' is the second album from Sweden's Bloodbound, a competent but not particularly engaging offering of melodic power metal that doesn't stand out from all the other bands playing exactly the same thing, except perhaps that Michael Bormann's singing is a little more hoarse. These eleven songs vary in speed and style completely by the Book: there are fast offerings such as the opening song, cheesy chorus-based anthems like the title track, a rubbish power ballad in the form of 'Black Heart' and a finale that thinks a keyboard introduction and length of seven minutes qualifies as epic, but at least has a satisfying galloping rhythm. Essentially, ...  Read the complete review