Scream Maker - Land Of Fire (CD)

SCREAM MAKER with their fourth album. The Polish band and their melodic heavy metal more or less in the vein of IRON MAIDEN is a cool example of what the genre produces these days. The band is pretty actice live-wise which you can actually hear on "Land Of Fire" for the most part. It's a pretty solid album with one or the other highlight ("Can't Stop The Rain" or "Dark Side Of Mine") but also a little bit of average sounds. Newly added vocalist Sebastian Stodolak is not free of accent but offers an impressive vocal range and a great timbre foremost. The (half-)ballad by the name of "Zombies" is a winner, too. A good production completes the picture here.