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Dream Evil's best work by far!

NoSoup4you | 07/02/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'm not going to go over every detail of the CD, if you want that you can look down there at all the other reviews. I just want to point out that EVILIZED is, by far, Dream Evil's best album. It has the best lyrics out of their three--there's no dragons and/or steel, and "metal for life" themes are kept to a minimum--and the songwriting is overall better than the others too. Of course both Dragonslayer and Book of Heavy Metal have their moments, but I don't think there's a single song on Evilized that deserves less than 4 stars. Pure ass-kickage all the way through. HIGHLIGHTS: Break the Chains, Fight you Till the End, Evilized (maybe their best song,) Forevermore, Live a Lie. Children of the Night is a (overrated) fan favorite as well.



I'd recommend this as anyone's first Dream Evil album, although the very song that got me into metal was The Prophecy from Dragonslayer. That one's great too, with several amazing songs and a couple throwaway tracks. Book of Heavy Metal, their latest release, is probably their worst I'd say. More "filler" tracks, less variety, there's maybe 3 great songs from it I'd still listen to. And after the vast lyrical improvements from Dragonslayer to Evilized, the cheese has returned! Evilized wasn't like a profound journey through the human psyche or anything, but there was the occasional line that made me say, "Hmm, that's clever." Book of Heavy Metal is just all about how awesome metal is and how metal they are...



Anyway, you can go to dreamevil.se (the official site,) where they have mp3 downloads of Chasing the Dragon, Break the Chains and the video for Book of Heavy Metal. Then decide what you think."

Dream Evil is made of metal

wishmaster | Colorado Springs, CO USA | 01/17/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"If you read any of my reviews you know I'm a power metal freak so you can probably guess that my review is good. Dream Evil is good but I would recomened Dragon Slayer insted of Evilized. Evilized is good but some of the songs just arn't good. Where as Dragon Slayer almost all the songs are good. The best songs on this cd are: "Evilized" because this song is just plain cool. Another good one is "Invisable" this song make s you want to trun the volume of your cd player way up. The best song on this cd is probably "Made Of Metal" iit is a thundering song that sounds like something Judas Priest would do it is also the on;y power metal song that I know of that has a curse word. If you are going to buy a Dream Evil cd buy Dragon Slayer this one is good but Dragon slayer is much better."

Dream Evil, Raw and Ripping

Darren Gray | Louisville, Kentucky United States | 04/02/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Evilized is the second release by Dream Evil in less than two years. Compared to their first release, Dragonslayer, this one is more raw and not nearly as refined as the first. It comes across as being recorded live instead of being a produced recording. Guitarist/Keyboardist Fredrik Nordstrom is no stranger to wearing the producer's hat, so I have to believe the "Live Studio" sound was what he was looking for. The CD is very good and the music is outstanding, but I found that the vocals were a bit muddled. Niklas Isfeldt is probably the best vocalist you have never heard of. He is an unbelieveable singer. The only singer I have heard better in the last 25 years is Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. His vocal talents here are somewhat hampered in the recording compared to Dragonslayer. That was the only reason I gave it four stars instead of five. The best tracks are Break the Chains, Evilized and Children of the Night, although I have a special fondness of the song Bad Dreams written by Drummer Snowy Shaw. Snowy did not contribute to the writing of the songs on first CD Dragonslayer, but he made up for it on this recording writing three songs and contributing on three others. He also wrote a terrific ballad called The End, which turned out to be a great ending to the CD. It is real simple. If you are like me and you miss good old fashion heavy metal with guitar players who know really how to play (Gus G. in this case, and a very talented bass player named Peter Stalfors to compliment Gus), I recommend this CD to you. Very good stuff."