BURNING POINT: Burned Down The Enemy

Choice Of The Month Feb 2007
Cover	Release	Style
	2007-01-19	metal
	Label
	www.metalheaven.com
	Website
	www.brnpoint.com
	Contact
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	Playing Time	Cat. N°
	58:03	metal heaven 000 30
	Review by / Translated by	Rating
	Johan	8,5/10
nederlands	Review
Burning Point was founded in the Fall of 1999 in Finland. After the recordings of a promotional CD, the band managed to get a record deal whereby they released “Salvation By Fire” and “Feeding The Flames”.Despite massive problems which ended up in the loss of their record deal the band nevertheless managed to get some live slots on some big festivals. In 2005 they recorded another promotional CD which was brought to the attention of Metal Heaven in Germany who offered the band a record deal. With “Burned Down The Enemy” it’s the end of an era and also the start of a new beginning. The new line-up is one full of energy and all band members are totally standing behind the band. “Burned Down The Enemy” is the most heaviest and aggressive album in the band’s history, although is full of great melodies and huge choruses. Musically spoken it’s a mixture of classic metal, mainly influenced by Melodic and Power Metal. Parasite is a fantastic song with great melodies and driving rhythms in good old Burning Point fashion. Up next is the melodic track “Heart Of Gold” whereby the focus is more on the melody than on heaviness. The Chorus of this song seems to be stuck forever. The vocals in “Dawn Of The Ancient War” sound a bit like Bruce Dickinson for me. “Hell Awaits” is a pure power track with simple efficient chorus. It seems like the band is using a formula of hitting you hard with powerful songs one minute and then stroke you down with fine melodies in the next one. The calm verses are quite similar to some Queensrÿche or Maiden tunes but with an own identity. “From The Beginning Of It All” is a nice ballad followed by a decreased tempo song “Icebound”. Full tempo is picked up again with Deceiver”. With “Eye For An Eye” - “To Hell And Back” and “Against The Madness Of Time” the same switching formula continues. For me “Burned Down The Enemy” is one of the best songs on the album and one of the most speedy ones also. The Whole album balances melody and heaviness in a splendid way by a brilliant crystal clear production and a tremendous performance. I enjoyed this release from start on and played it many times over and over again. Fans of the band have nothing to fear and everyone who's into heavy and power metal can buy this album with their eyes closed. The limited version of this release will include 3 bonus tracks: “My reign, my fire”, “Heart of gold (Demo)”, “The road to hell”.
Musicians
Pete Ahonen: vocals & guitars/ Bass on “Burned down the enemy” Pekka Kolivuori: guitars Jussi Ontero: keyboards, Drums on * Jari Kaiponen: drums bass: Jukka "hesus" Jokikokko
Tracklist
Parasite (5:13) * Heart of gold (5:48) Dawn of the ancient war (4:09) * Hell awaits (4:12) * From the beginning of it all (5:20) Icebound (5:04) Deceiver (3:56) Eye for an eye (6:37) To hell and back (4:14) * Against the madness of time (4:35) * Burned down the enemy (8:58) *
Discography
Salvation By Fire (2001) Feeding The Flames (2003) To Hell And Back – single (2004) Burned down the enemy (2007)


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