THESE NEW RAINTIME SONGS AREN’T DOING MUCH FOR ME
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 4:13pm by Vince Neilstein
A few weeks ago Cosmo Lee at Invisible Oranges called for power metal fans to defend the (in his opinion) indefensible genre, a call which I readily answered because I love the stuff. Almost on cue, Intronaut’s Sacha Dunable issued his own defense of power metal — I swear I didn’t prompt him — claiming that in its current unpopular state, playing power metal in 2010 is about as punk rock as you can get. I salute you, Sacha.
Raintime, one of my favorite Europowercheese bands, have come out with a new song this week on the MySpace page of their American record label, Bieler Bros. The song, “Fire Ants,” comes from their forthcoming March 16th release Psychromatic. Their last release Flies & Lies was an excellent album so I’m curious what this new record will hold for these fine Italian gentlemen, but based on the new track I’m kind of nervous. Musically the song is solid if unspectacular, but vocally it’s weak as hell. Nevermind the fact that Claudio Coassin has ditched his vocal growls completely… I’m more concerned with the fact that his clean vocals kind of suck. Perhaps this was the case on Flies & Lies and I just didn’t notice because the music and songwriting were so strong. There’s a new pre-pro track on Raintime’s own MySpace page which leaves me feeling pretty much the same way.
Way to not give me any more ammo in my power metal argument, guys. With Mercenary ditching half their band last year and Gus G.’s obligation to Ozzy over Firewind for the immediate future, what have we modern power metal fans got left?
-VN
Communic?
I fully endorse this “modern power metal” thing… mainly because, looking at Mercenary, Nevermore, Communic… they’re not power metal at all!
No frilly shirts, no lyrics about orcs/elves/woods/battles, just big riffs and big vocals.
It’s just good metal. Not pwer metal.
I agree. By that logic Scar Symmetry is power metal too.
True, by those terms they’re pretty close…
I propose we convene the Secret Metal Council and vote on a new genre term… I suggest “Uber-Metal” to describe metal that takes from multiple genres in both a proggy and ludicrously over the top way.
Really, it’s not doing much for you? Because I heard one of the new songs yesterday on Pandora and I immediately wrote them down on my perpetual list of bands to check out. Honestly, I have one and it’s got on it: Machinemade God, Enslaved, Setherial, Manticora, Raintime, and now the new Priestess album as well.
I wet myself LOL’ing at this picture. Raintime in my pants.
This new song is REALLY lame in every possible way. It’s sad to see a band that wrote such a solid album in Flies and Lies go to shit like this. And the vocals were better on Flies and Lies.
Also, their cover of Michale Jackson’s “Beat It” is rather funny.
dude on the left looks like justin timberlake… just saying
“RAIN”-time!! I get it, that’s where the concept of the picture comes from… Someone had to think about it!
you still have DRAGONFORCE!!!!!!
bahahahahahahaha
Well Dream Evil released their new disc In The Night which kicks ass as usual.Also check out Mystic Prophecy’s newest cd Fireangel and 2007’s Satanic Curses for some fast,heavy power metal done right
Dream Evil is pretty much the only straightforward power metal I listen to. it’s cheesy as fuck, but any band that has a song called “Fire! Battle! In Metal!” is fine by me
jesus christ you guys have the worst taste in just about everything
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Very disappointing songs. After listening to Flies & Lies, I was hoping there would be more growls/less clean passages on their next album. The track Rolling Chances had the right balance in vocal styles.