XANDRIA — Neverworld's End (review)

XANDRIA — Neverworld's End album cover Album · 2012 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
666sharon666
Out of all the female fronted symphonic metal bands out there, there was one band I always managed to overlook: Xandria. This German band is most known for playing symphonic gothic metal which is more or less why I overlooked them, as I typically prefer my symphonic metal to be regular symphonic metal (like Within Temptation) or symphonic power metal (like Nightwish).

However Xandria, after a large break between albums which saw them acquire a new vocalist, released Neverworld’s End in 2012, and changed their style into symphonic power metal. I was sold by the new sound after hearing the song Valentine, which the band has made a music video for. As good as Valentine is though, if I were to rank all the songs on the album in terms of favouritism, it would be on the lower end.

The sound of the album is quite like the sound Nightwish used to play, but Xandria doesn’t directly copy the Finnish band due to Neverworld’s End having a lot more folk influence in it than Nightwish’s Oceanborn ever had. It also has a few touches I’d consider progressive. I should probably also mention it’s a better album too.

I think symphonic metal with operatic female vocals can be an acquired taste among metalheads, but I recommend everyone to give Neverworld’s End a go as the album is affair bit more aggressive guitar wise than most of the bigger names of the genre have ever been (Epica may be an exception), and it is also very epic, and most definitely one of my favourite albums of the year.
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