When I saw a new album by the band Destiny on the list, my brain
matter started to work and it made me walk to my cd collection and there I found
an album by the band Destiny. There I found somewhere on a dusty shelf 'Future
of the Past' released in 2004 by Swedish heavy/progressive/power metal band
Destiny. I decided to volunteer for reviewing the new Destiny album on the list,
still thinking that this was a new release by that band. After diving into it
more, I discovered that this is a total different band hailing from Costa Rica
and the style is indeed different from the Swedes also. If the Swedish band
doesn't exist anymore, this new Destiny will not get in trouble using the same
name.
This album has already been available as an EP in May 2014, but is now released
on a bigger scale by Power Prog and with 2 songs added. When you look at the
songlist you see that they cover Helloween with "I Want Out", so you can
guess what kind of style to expect from them. They play power metal indeed, but
I think their style is more comparable with a band like Angra then with
Helloween. Singer Anton Darusso is a typical power metal singer, with the high
vocals and the sometimes more lower style. On "Forgive But Not Forget" there are
even some grunting harsh vocals, which makes the song a tad heavier. The band
uses nice melodies and the songs are rather pleasant to listen to. The extra
song "Falling Angel" has Roberto Tiranti as singer and you perhaps know him from
the band Labyrinth. This extra song is not a lot different from the original
second track, so there are only eight tracks, which is a bit minimal. "Forgive
But Not Forget" is the only new song compared with the 2014 version. Perhaps
they have already a lot of new material, which they will use on a new album soon,
but I'm not updated with any kind of information about that.
This is a nice power metal album, which doesn't bring a lot of new elements, but
if you like the Angra style, this sure is an album you will like. Not bad, but
rather average if you compare it with the lot.
