Place Vendome – Close to the Sun – 2017
Place Vendome – Close to the Sun
I would categorize Close to the Sun as power metal but maybe not the most typical in the genre. There is a little less power than metal if you know what I mean. The melodies are quite nice and I feel like Mikael Kiske has developed a lower range than what I remember from Helloween. That makes his voice more rich than I have heard it before. That’s a good thing. Because even if you sing like a God you’ll always have potential growth when it comes to the performance.
The sound is somewhat thinner than I prefer. But there’s no double about it being a really well-played and produced album. Maybe more so than is beneficiary. Over produced music tend to lose som of its dynamics. But this is nice if you’re not after bombastic theatrics.