Starfall - Dragonland

Dragonland's distinctive sound begins to define itself on their third album, which ditches the intro and outro tracks and instead hands an entire portion of the album over to keyboard player Elias Holmlid's orchestral soundtrack compositions, a trend that would increase on the next album, the classic 'Astronomy.' The music is now more progressive, no longer instantly comparable to other power metal bands, but at the same time the band seems to possess relatively few original ideas at this point. Although each song is a high quality performance in its own right, they tend to sound the same, without the contrived fast/slow divisions of past works. 'As Madness ...  Read the complete review