*Artist: Crystal Blaze
*Album: Dreams [demo]
*Year: 2004
*Genre: Power Metal
*Country: Finland
*Format: mp3@CBR192kbps
*Size: 21MB
Tracklist:
1. Dreams Beyond 05:05
2. It's not the End 04:24
3. Mirror 05:20
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Total playing time: 14:49
BAND:
Max Obstbaum - Vocals
Mikael Grönroos - Guitar
Lauri Koskenniemi - Guitar (ex-Imperanon)
Eerik Purdon - Bass (Live bass in Amoral, Omnium Gatherum (Fin), Iconofear)
Gustaf Standertskjöld - Drums (2004-2007)
Since the big rise of Finnish metal throughout the 1990s and in the early 21st Century, the metal scene in Finland now spawns more excellent new bands than ever. With this kind of overstimulated market, it is sadly easy for even best of the fresh bands to go unnoticed. However, for some of these bands the flaming inspiration to create and perform outstanding music is so strong that once one gets acquitented with these bands, it is immenently clear that the name of the band will be seen and heard in a much larger arenas than in the gig posters and flyers for local pubs or on the pages of small webzines. One of these bands is the Finnish Wacken Metal Battle 2007 winner, Crystal Blaze, a killer metal act from the city of Helsinki, Finland.
The band, started already in 1995 by schoolmates at that time, guitarist Mikael Grönroos, singer Max Obstbaum and drummer Gustaf Standertskjöld, has already achieved much more than many other unsigned bands – and surely is not intending to stop here! The current line-up for the band started to take shape in 2002, when guitarist Lauri Koskenniemi (Elenium) and keyboardist Lari Sorvo joined the band. In 2004, the band recorded a three-track demo called ´Dreams´ with this line-up. ´Dreams´ got very good and encouraging reviews in the Finnish press as well as in the Internet. Later in 2004, bassist Eerik Purdon (Omnium Gatherum, Iconofear) joined to band to make the present line-up almost complete.
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