DARK ILLUSION
Where The Eagles Fly
(Battlefield Records)

If you love Hammerfall you'll like this one. That is all you really need to know. I must admit that upon initial introduction I thought that something with dark in the name must be just another black metal band, which couldn't be further from the truth. You might think that any album with Tomas Vikström on lead vocals has to be a bad one given how many albums he's sung on but you might want to re-examine that opinion giving his track record (Candlemass' Chapter VI). Which brings me back to my first sentence. If you love Hammerfall you'll like Dark Illusion's Where The Eagles Fly. www.darkillusion.se

-Anders Ekdahl