Freedom Call - Beyond (2014, 2CD) (Limited Edition)
Freedom Call - Beyond (2014, 2CD)
Year & Label: 2014, Steamhammer/SPV GmbH | CD#: SPV 266382 CD
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Limited edition Digibook with bonus CD
Year & Label: 2014, Steamhammer/SPV GmbH | CD#: SPV 266382 CD
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Limited edition Digibook with bonus CD
The first three Freedom Call albums were all solid masterpieces of melodic power metal, Eternity being one of my favorite albums ever recorded. But after those, Freedom Call for some reason went into kind of a mediocre state, with their next album The Circle Of Life not even being close to the greatness previously conceived. Dimensions and Legend Of The Shadowking were stepping lightly in the right direction again, and Land Of The Crimson Dawn surprised me as it was actually pretty good and a big step in the right direction. Then, out of nowhere comes this album and completely blows the past four albums out of the water.Musicians:
First of all, just look at the album cover. If you've seen past Freedom Call artworks, you notice they mostly focus on one color pattern per album, Eternity being dark-green, Shadowking being blue and Crimson Dawn being well… crimson. But this album artwork is in my opinion the best they've ever had, it's simply beautiful to look at with its vast color palette. I don't even know what it's supposed to be, but hey. It's power metal, it's supposed to be cheesy and cool, and that's exactly what it is. But does the artwork's greatness match the actual music?
Yes, yes, YES it does! Not only does this album has some of the catchiest songs the band has ever written, I remember almost every single song clearly just from listening to the album once. This was something the earlier albums had but the past four albums lacked. They had their fair share of catchy songs, but the albums didn't achieve perfect catchiness all the way through. This one does by storm. Even my girlfriend who doesn't often listen to Power Metal started to hum the lyrics to Union Of The Strong the second time the chorus came along.
The songs are the same kind of Freedom Call songs you know and love, with the same catchy melodies and cheesy lyrics. If that's not your thing, you're probably not even a fan of the band and you shouldn't even be reading this, but if you ARE a Freedom Call fan, you're definitely gonna love the songs. I mean, you've got your fast-paced power metal songs like Tears Of Taragon, Heart Of A Warrior and Edge Of The Ocean, and the extremely happy and uplifting songs like Come On Home, Journey Into Wonderland and Follow Your Heart, and of course what has become somewhat of a tradition, the album ends with an uplifting happy outro song with bagpipes, Beyond Eternity. The songs I haven't mentioned aren't bad by any means, and I wouldn't call them filler either because believe me, they still jump on your mind faster than you can jump to their beat.
I strongly feel this is the band's best effort since Eternity, and probably ties for my personal favorite album by them. After Crimson Dawn was released, the drummer and the bassist left the band, and they got some pretty damn good replacements. Lineup changes is nothing new to Freedom Call, but I was pleasantly surprised to see their original bassist Ilker Ersin back in the band. I think this may have affected the song writing, as they haven't written anything this good since he left the band. It may be a coincidence since I don't know exactly who writes all the songs or if it's always collaborate efforts or whatever, but having him back must have had some positive influence on the band because like I said, they haven't sounded this happy in quite a few years.
The only fault I can find with this album is strictly a matter of opinion. Some people may think this is "just more of the same", and I wouldn't blame them, because it is more of the same. The difference is that it's more of the same, but taking away the dull and boring and throwing in more happy and uplifting, and multiplying the number of memorable songs by a lot. Cause that's another great thing, the album's almost an hour long, and that's not even counting the second CD of the limited edition (although that's just unplugged versions of older songs, but still). If you're a fan of Freedom Call or catchy melodies in power metal in general, then I recommend this without a doubt, because the chances are very high that you won't be disappointed.
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Vocals, guitars : Chris Bay
Guitars : Lars Rettkowitz
Bass : Ilker Ersin
Drums : Ramy Ali
CD1 Track List:
01. Union Of The Storm [5:02]
02. Knights Of Taragon [4:44]
03. Heart Of A Warrior [3:13]
04. Come On Home [4:03]
05. Beyond [7:49]
06. Among The Shadows [3:45]
07. Edge Of The Ocean [3:36]
08. Journey Into Wonderland [3:59]
09. Rhythm Of Light [4:02]
10. Dance Off The Devil [3:45]
11. Paladin [4:08]
12. Follow Your Heart [3:52]
13. Colours Of Freedom [4:16]
14. Beyond Eternity [3:04]
CD2 Track List:
01. Back Into The Land Of Light (Live) [5:43]
02. Hero On Video (Live) [3:55]
03. Rockstars (Live) [5:03]
04. Farewell (Live) [5:25]
05. Mr. Evil (Reggae Vs. Metal) (Live) [5:13]
06. Power & Glory (Live) [3:32]
07. Freedom Call (Unplugged) [5:39]
08. The Quest (Unplugged) [8:25]
09. Warriors (Unplugged) [4:30]
10. Power & Glory (Unplugged) [3:42]
11. Farewell (Unplugged) [4:51]
12. Mr. Evil (Reggae) (Masqueraded) [4:17]
13. Rockin' Radio (Killerbilly) (Masqueraded) [4:27]
Tracks 1-6 recorded live at Seewald, Germany June, 29th 2013
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Freedom Call / Beyond (Bonus CD)
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Freedom Call / Beyond
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Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 21. February 2014, 2:16
Freedom Call / Beyond (Bonus CD)
Used drive : ATAPI iHAP122 9 Adapter: 3 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
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