Saint Deamon – Ghost
Label: Ram It Down Records
Release date: September 13th, 2019
Website: www.saintdeamon.se
Scandinavian band SAINT DEAMON plays powerful melodic metal (“Captain Saint D“ or “Return Of The Deamons“) with epic elements (“Call My Name“) and a very good portion of STRATOVARIUS at times. “Ghost“, their third effort and the first after almost ten years brings on all the qualities of a good melodic metal record and even more. A high-quality production with lots of distinctive details waits to be discovered here. The same goes with the beautifully crafted artwork. SAINT DEAMON convince with a classy ballad (“Somewhere Far Beyond“), too. It’s the titletrack that combines most of the qualities afore mentioned. And then there is the melodic monster “Limelight Dreams“ with its amazing hookline which would easily classify as an AOR song or reminder of the fantastic second LABYRINTH-album “Return To Heaven Denied“. Towards the end there are a few rather average tracks (“Journey Through The Stars“ or “Resurrection“), so maybe only ten or eleven songs instead of fourteen would have made an even better impression. Vocalist Jan Thore Grefstad of the Norwegian-Swedish outfit is doing one hell of a job and the versatile guitar work is pretty remarkable, too.
7,5/10
Martin Stark
Tracklist
- Captain Saint D
- Call My Name
- Return Of The Deamons
- Ghost
- Limelight Dreams
- Hell Is Calling
- Earth Is Alive
- Land Of Gold
- Higher
- Somewhere Far Beyond
- The Exodus, Part II
- Journey Through The Stars
- Break The Sky
- Resurrection
