Year : 2012
Style : Melodic Epic Heavy Metal
Country : Greece
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 131 mb
Bio:
Marios Christakis decide to create a band with a 100 % epic feeling and modern sound, with the serious epic approach of the old epic bands like WARLORD, BATHORY, MANOWAR (first albums) etc. The idea was there, but the name had not been decided.The thought was for the name to represent power and at the same time to give an epic feeling of action. So, the word "BRAVE" and the word "RIDE" became BRAVERIDE.In the year 2004, the BRAVERIDE project started and after some changes BRAVERIDE became a one man band. This may change in the future. The style of the BRAVERIDE music is epic-power metal with a symphonic approach. The lyrics speak of ancient fantasy battles and of sword and sorcery themes.With the help of two drummers the “Heroic Deeds” album was recorded. The recordings were done at Mario’s home studio except the drum recordings that were done in a normal studio. The music was composed by Mario who also plays all the instruments except the drums. “Heroic Deeds” doesn’t have a professional sound but it represents the BRAVERIDE music.After a few months of the self-released “Heroic Deeds” album which has got very good reviews from the magazines and from the people, some new recordings were started in a normal studio with the help of some good musician friends.The new song “Time to March” has been recorded and it is an example of the sound that new songs shall have. In “Time to March”, the music was composed again by Mario and he plays only the guitars and he sings. There is a great collaboration between the session members who help in improving the songs and all things are on the way to the new recordings of the new songs.The journey begins…
Album:
As a metal buying public, we have been spoilt for choice over the last few years as far as sword & sorcery based Power Metal is concerned. For us this is good thing as we always find a gem here and there, but for the bands themselves this mass of variety isn’t such a positive thing. What it has meant is that unless you are releasing top-shelf material you will never get near the top of pack and you will forever fight among the rest of the also-rans, vying for attention and recognition. Unfortunately this is really were I see BRAVERIDE sitting right at the moment. Their blend of MANOWAR-esque epicness and a more mid-paced Folk-Metal feel offers up enough to spark my interest slightly, but the execution isn’t quite there enough t keep my attention for long enough.I did genuinely enjoy tracks like DRAGONRIDER and A PLACE OF SHADOWS and alsow while were at the the folky-est song of the album HEROE’S ODE offers plenty too. As a fan of fantasy fiction I really did enjoy the lyrical elements here and was truly invested in some f the better written tracks on the album. The vocals never quite live up to the lyrics unfortunately though and while they are serviceable, they lack any wow factor or anything to give them an edge compared to the other dozens of similar bands around at the moment. Actually the songwritng itself shares the same fate in a way, with a very similar feel across the entire album without the ebbs and flows that you would usually expect from any album waving the epic-metal flag.That’s a good way to sum up this entire album actually…. RISE OF THE DRAGONRIDER does a lot of things right, and also a few things quite well, but the overall package suffers because there just isn’t anything here that will wow people and the entire album just feels like it was done by a band that has all of the tools but don’t know to make good use of them.Braveride is an epic-symphonic metal band with many power-metal elements.Pure epic feeling and modern sound characterizes the style of the band and all the lyrics inspired by sword and sorcery fantasy themes. The band founded by Marios Christakis at 2004. All the albums are concept based.
Line-Up:
Alex Koromilas - Vocals
Marios Christakis - Guitars
Karolos Vigato - Keyboards, Piano
Pantelis Antonoglou - Drums
Tracklist:
01. At the Village 01:50 instrumental
02. A Place of Shadows 04:33
03. Heroes' Ode 06:15
04. Ruins of Disaster 04:58
05. At Enemies' Borders 06:38
06. For the Fallen 04:41
07. Shifles the Griffin 06:11
08. Dragonrider 04:41
09. A Piece of Peace 02:52 instrumental
10. The Great Mountain 10:39
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