POWER OF THE DRAGONFLAME

The Emerald Sword Saga comes to a valiant conclusion on Rhapsody's Power of the Dragonflame, as the band roll out an album which touches on all the different styles they'd tried out in the preceding episodes. If you have listened to the earlier chapters then by now you should know whether you like or loathe Rhapsody and their "everything crazier than everything else" approach - and if you like them, this won't disappoint one bit. Indeed, with the band apparently trying to take a slightly more measured and subtle approach with the sequel saga (The Dark Secret series, starting with Symphony of Enchanted Lands II) this album marks the end of the bombastic, over-the-top first phase of Rhapsody.