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Firecracker - Born Of Fire

Label: Escape
Format: CD
Released: 2010
Reviewed By: Mark Gromen
Rating: 7 /10


Resurrected recordings of Swedish guitarist Stefan Lindhom (Vindictiv) early (read never released, demo era) neo-classical works, in the spirit of countrymen Yngwie Malmsteen. While minimal info is provided about the disc, it features vocals by Seventh Wonder’s Tommy Karevik and Unleashed’s Fredrik Folkare trading his signature guitar for bass.

 

Plenty of guitar sweeps and matching keyboard runs throughout the lengthy instrumental bits that seem to crop up in each of the eight compositions, ‘Speed’, the aptly named closing instrumental, being the penultimate example. ‘Instru-metal’ is also devoid of voices, lest the title fooled you. When not mimicking his hero, the music is decidedly prog-metal (see ‘Second Self’), particularly the Dream Theater-ish keys and ballady vocal lines.

 
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