Mortal Mind Creation (Mortal Mind Creation - Celesty)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Mortal Mind Creation - Celesty
Date:	25/04/08 (66 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Progressive touches now work.

Disadvantages: Still indebted to the power metal tradition.

After a couple of wholly mediocre albums, Celesty finally make their mark on the power metal scene with their third offering, 'Mortal Mind Creation.' Ditching most of the distractions that only ever hindered their music and made them seem like a Rhapsody clone (the pointless intro and the domineering keyboards in particular), the band concentrates more fully on the metal performance, making for one of the heaviest, fastest and ultimately more enjoyable power metal albums I've heard in some time.

By stripping down the superfluous elements, the band is free to concentrate on being more authentically progressive, in a manner similar (but not identical) to prog-power bands such as Adagio and Symphony X, particularly in songs like 'Demon Inside.' Also gone are the huge deviations into keyboard instrumentals and cheesy power ballads, the latter being replaced by slow songs that still pack a punch, in the form of 'War Creations' and 'Among the Dreams.'

Overall, this makes for a less predictable, less generic and more distinctive album from Celesty, far more entertaining than anything their Finnish contemporaries Sonata Arctica and Stratovarius have achieved in some considerable time.

1. Lord of Mortals
2. Unreality
3. Demon Inside
4. War Creations
5. Empty Room
6. Among the Dreams
7. Back In Time
8. Arrival
9. Last Sacrifice

Summary: Celesty's third album (2006).