ALBUM REVIEWS:
"Abysses in the sky" (Blackstar 3, 1999)
Score: 8.
Showing with all clarity an overpowering metal, catchy, but also rich and imaginative, the local sextet debuts this way in its mini-CD of seven songs. The first five are those that compose the main recording, of a prominent quality in the voice of Christian Bertocelli, who has an abundant vocal flow, extremely well managed, forming a whole without excesses but with lots of surprises. You cant avoid to hear the twin guitars solos (in a way that was defined a while ago by the first Helloween) and it doesn't lack the classic touch, helped by the pomposity of the keyboard of Axel Sierra Bas that stands out by his own, by the way it dwells inside the compositions, finishing bolstering the melodic solidity of the songs. There is also a moment for the rest of the band, with "In times of goodness", where they threaten to cloy with a song in the same vein that the soft topics of Ynwgie Malmsteen, but you doesn't arrive to the abuse where the swedish guitarist usually incurs. Two demo songs complete the compact with homemade sound quality, where surprisingly I find Christian walking the path of Ralf Scheepers, (good, it is not so much the surprise in fact and it is of highlighting the single fact of this comparison). The thirty five minutes become short, I keep desires of more and this first mouthful advances us a succulent first album.
Exequiel Núñez, Epopeya Magazine Nº 21
Argentina, February 1999.