I was super excited to see Epica at the Whiskey and I had not heard of Visions of Atlantis the opening band before so I checked out their myspace page and was pleasantly suprised to find them to be symphonic metal with both female and male lead vocals. The few songs on myspace hardly do them justice however as I quickly found out once they took the stage. The band consists of a very comely female lead singer as well as a male lead singer doing more of a melodic (Blind Guardian comes to mind which is a HUGE compliment in my book) style vocals as opposed to the harsh growly style. Man these guys kicked ass. Every song was fantastic and certain songs really stuck in my head (Like Darkside Home). I went and bought the new CD afterwards and listen to it often, what a great disc. These guys really deserve some attention, hailing from Austria they combine so much of what I love in the gothic melodic metal scene I highly recommend them to anyone who listens to metal touched music with an edge, whether you are into Within Temptation, Epica, Therion, Tristania, Sirenia, or even Blind Guardian... these guys are on that level and worth the listen.
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