MELANCHOLY BEAST

The debut Pyramaze album finds the Danish unit offering a style of prog-tinged power metal which won't be new to many listeners; right down to Lance King's Bruce Dickinson/Geoff Tate-esque vocal delivery, the various ingredients of this musical mix have been brought together in a broadly similar fashion by many groups before and since, and Melancholy Beast doesn't do very much we haven't heard before. If you are addicted to this style of music and simply cannot get enough of it, it may be worth a look, but otherwise you aren't likely to come back to this very often after hearing it once. Competent, but not transcendent.