Originally throwing her hat into the metal ring with the independent and fantasy-based power metal band Evenmore on their 2016 debut “Last Ride,” her capability in delivering a soaring voice while expounding legendary deeds is already well established and plays well into the forceful and blustering arrangements in which this outfit deals. Though this highly ambitious quartet contains no slouches among its membership, the primary center of gravity proves to be their highly charismatic and versatile front woman Melissa Bonny. The relative newcomer and Swiss act Ad Infinitum, which came into being a brief while ago in 2018 and would subsequently unleash a highly impressive variant on all 3 of the aforementioned niches within their adopted sub-genre in 2020 debut LP “Chapter I: Monarchy,” combining a compact and easily digestible songwriting formula with a mixture of dark groove metal trappings and bombastic symphonic textures, bearing some resemblance to the likes of Germany’s Beyond The Black and the slightly more obscure Dutch outfit End Of The Dream, but taking the corresponding complex to flashier and more aggressive place. In the particularly prominent world of female-fronted symphonic metal that has been riding a proverbial tidal wave of commercial viability has been no exception to this, particularly given that a new band taking up the mantle of Nightwish, Within Temptation or Delain seems to be cropping up every other week. There are many forces in the metal market that can spur innovation, and scene saturation is arguably the most potent of them.
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