Review of Wuthering Heights - To Travel For Evermore

Wuthering Heights is a pretty generic power/prog/speed metal band. They follow the old cliché of "awesome technicality, no substance" that we see so often in power metal bands today. This doesn’t mean they are a bad band, or even a boring one, but like so many other bands, they are forgettable. They just lack the intangibles. Production-wise and musician-wise, Wuthering Heights is top-notch. "To Travel For Evermore" was nicely produced, with good use of sound effects/keyboards to add to the guitars. The riffs are just bland though, there is not much to keep you interested here. The singer is pretty generic too, he has some conviction and emotion, but it’s nothing special, really. There is just nothing that stands out on this album. My favorite song was "Battle of the Seasons", the 8+ minute instrumental. No songs were all that great, but I really liked "Battle of the Seasons". Don’t get me wrong, all of the songs were "good", there were some cool solos and such, and I actually like the album. I wasn't too big on the singer, and there is just not much that is going to make me want to pick it up and listen again. If you don’t mind shelling out the 15 bucks for an album and listening to it only a few times, then I think you’d be happy with this album. As for me, I like to get my money’s worth, so buying this album is a no-go for me. Maybe it’ll see some play in an MP3 playlist in the future at some point, but I don’t see myself even remembering who these guys are twenty mintues from now. While not a "bad" band, they aren’t "great" either. I could take it or leave it.

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Wuthering Heights

To Travel For Evermore

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