I agree - Mandrake seems to catch them half way in their transition from more power metal to regular melodic metal/heavy rock and has just the right balance. Rocket Ride has a couple of duff tracks but is also a very solid album IMO.

I'm not a fan of the whole double kick from start to finish standard power metal fare and prefer it when these bands slow it down and show some real power...............a good example is Stratovarius - to me boring when going full speed but awesome when slow and powerful in tracks like Uncertainty, Kiss of Judas.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/31/2012 02:21AM by the ORIGINAL brent.