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The French power metallers Nightmare proves that they are still in the top of the European metal, and to celebrate their 30 years in the business they release a monster CD, and also a DVD both releases are recorded at a concert in their hometown of Grenoble, France. It is obvious that the experience that comes from 30 years of heavy metal gained them very well. Nightmare have a sound that newcomers doesn't get out of the blue. Their style is their own, but there a elements of Judas Priest and Black Sabbath in their songs, especially the drums are clearly inspired by Scott Travis from Judas Priest. It starts with the song Eternal Winter, a basic power metal rhythm that puts a pressure that are truly amazing, difficult to find a more powerful song on the album. On the song Heretic we get very solid metal and again this enormous pressure that the recording gives. Legions Of The Rising Sun is all melody and power, Secret Rules is a soft powerful song but make no mistake, it is a heavy as they come. Queen Of Love And Pain shows genius creative guitar exploitations, this song really catches the concert crowds. Three Mile Island is a solid song, and I know that it is meant for a live CD, but it is far too long, it looses some of the intensity when it just goes on and on, maybe it's meant to please the crowd, but those 8 minutes could easily have done it with 5 minutes. Target For Revenge is a soft and very heavy song, and to sum up the CD we get The Watchtower as the finishing song, a strong very heavy rhythm that leaves no doubt about the competence of songs chosen for this live recording from Nightmare. On the DVD there are 4 extra songs, and despite some of the songs on the CD kind of serves as bonus material the bottom line shows that Nightmare still have the quality and energy to give splendid performance.
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