EDGUY — Mandrake (review)

EDGUY — Mandrake album cover Album · 2001 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
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Mandrake is an album that nicely shows the development of German power metal act Edguy which culminated in the following live album Burning Down The Opera.

This development is one I always enjoy, a band growing into their musical style and successfully trying to raise the quality both of their sound and songwriting. While Edguy started as some kind of Helloween clone in their teens, their songs, arrangements and consequently albums have grown in their complexity starting with Vain Glory Opera. I honestly can't understand why Edguy have not yet been introduced to the Progressive Metal section of progarchives.com, though most songs are of relative normal length.

But that's rambling, back to the album. The sound and production have stepped up once again on Mandrake, as has Tobias Sammet's vocal performance. The songs themselves are quite what one would have expected after Theater Of Salvation, and I can't find a song I would rate as utter crap. On the highlight side I would go for Painting On The Wall, Jerusalem and the epic The Pharaoh, but my absolutely favourite song of the album is Tears Of A Mandrake.

I can't explain why, but despite all those positive facts about Mandrake I'm not quite willing to hand out another five star rating. But the Essential category on this site starts at four and a half stars, so that's it.
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