Painside- Dark world burden (2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-coKO2eMs&feature=related

These Brazilians can really make a good name. Their debut ‘’Dark world burden’’ is a modern heavy/power metal album that combines European and US metal. Think of Judas Priest’s ‘’Painkiller’’, think of Cage but with a better balance between melody and power and you got the picture more or less. The great advantage of Painside is their fantastic singer Guilherme Sevens, who possesses a set of impressive pipes and belts out high pitched screams in a very persuasive way, without sounding gay. He’s more in the style of singers like Ralf Sheepers or Rob Rock I think, you know, wide ranged but with a raspy tone. There’s some great riffing throughout the album and ass kicking up tempo songs like Ignite the fire, Deviant will make you bang your head for good, while in tracks like This dark world and Forsaken the band proves itself worthy of mid tempo anthemic songs too. I can’t find any real flaw to this album, even the production is clear, tight and powerful transferring the bands full power to our starving-for-good-metal ears.