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Crosswind -Opposing Forces (9/10)

Album Review

Album Title

Opposing Forces

Website

Homepage

Votes

5

Visited

107

Country

Greece

Year of the Release

2009

Labels

independent

editors rating

9/10

Band Highlights

The band first got together in '96 and had their first demo titled "Dark Omens" in '98. After that the band split for 6 years with members leaving for personal reasons, moving to different countries and all sorts of Spinal Tap-ean situations arising... Despite the fact that due to this situation promotion of the material was pretty much non existant, the demo found its way to the underground, getting extremely good reviews. The founding members Kyriakos and drummer Vasilis started the band again in 2005. Their sole purpose, to create and play music without any compromises, blending the finest ingredients of what makes Metal so great. Speed, power, melody and substance. Crosswind's sound can be described as the fusion of NWOBHM's melody, German Power Metal's speed and technique and American Heavy Metal's epic sound.

Band Line Up

-Kyriakos Vasdokas: Guitars, Vocals -Leon Tsorbatzoglou: Guitars -Vasilis Kyrkos: Bass -Vasilis Mitsaris: Drums

Article Date

2010-02-19

Influences

Iron Maiden, Manowar, Judas Priest, Helloween, Accept, Running Wild

Style

Power Metal

Band Name

crosswind

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Hail to the Greek Metal - Greek Metal is Still Alive and kickin!! i have told you so many times that i created epicmetal.net in order to discover hidden gems of metal. crosswind is one of them. their power metal /symphonic style with melodic guitar solos and powerish riffing is excellent! i can see their influences in their music with manowar (EPIC), gamma ray. Blind guardian, Helloween bands which have affected positively a generation of metallers.. this is an album which gets a well done in both production wise but also in terms of the details. this EP contains 4 songs and comes with a lyrics booklet. in addition to the majestic and energetic compositions i have to express my compliments to the vocalist of the band Kyriacos vasdokas for its high octaves but more importantly for its English accent (a disadvantage of many greek bands). what i will be really interested is to listen this band live. hopefully we will get an invitation should they perform live! Power metal All the way from Greece full of Energy and Epic Elements. COntinue the egood work guys. you deserve a label contract. and just to close this review hair to the artwork! its fantastic. The cover art for "Opposing Forces", "Beyond" as well as the band's new Logo have both been created by one of the last standing true metal cover artists around. Dimitar Nikolov. crosswind Metal Rules! check them out!