XANDRIA — Neverworld's End (review)

XANDRIA — Neverworld's End album cover Album · 2012 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
Gothic metal and symphonic metal - the two most corset-heavy subgenres of metal - fuse in Xandria's sound and rather always have done, and new vocalist Manuela Kraller doesn't shake the boat on her first studio album with the band. Nightwish comparisons seem inevitable in any discussion of the album, and there's an extent to which the band and their label bring this on themselves (as others have noted there's a mild power metal flavouring to their brand of symphonic metal which puts me in mind of Nightwish, and for that matter the cover art for this one looks like something Nightwish would be glad to put on one of their releases). Xandria do have their own personality here - there's a bit more melancholy in the mix than I tend to hear in Nightwish - but at the same time I think they're close enough to Nightwish's style that if you particularly like or dislike Nightwish you can fairly easily guess whether you'll enjoy what Xandria have to offer.
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