Avalanch's fourth album sees an almost complete reinvention of the band's sound, with new vocalist Ramón Lage fronting a now more expressly commercially-oriented version of what was previously a fairly obscure Spanish progressive power metal band. The progressive elements still remain in the form of lengthy keyboard sections and structural changes, but this is less challenging and less exciting music on the whole, having abandoned most of its power metal roots, only surfacing in the occasional fast, brief guitar section. Alberto Rionda's guitars are still easily the highlight of the band, and while he mostly confines himself to limited slow riff duty here, the ...  Read the complete review