Evan
Blue Lightning

Blue lightning from a Greek/German fellow named Evan K, a man who knows his strings and notes. And he has some prominent guests as well, Bob Katsionis helps out with the keys and Fabio Lione does vocals on two of the tracks. The album also features a pretty cool artwork, not just cool but also fairly exciting. We also get a cover song that ends the album. So what shall we then say about this man and his debut album?

It is predominantly instrumental metal music, melodic, a bit progressive and quite varied. It is an album of two parts, the first and largest one is instrumental while the ending part has three tracks and it has vocals where the first two are power metal songs and the ending cover song is something of a gothic track. Overall I think you can call it a strong production, the sound is great and the melodies excellent, also the vocals from Lione works fine. This two-face thing does however give the album a somewhat fragmented appearance, kind of like it being parts of two separate albums being put together into this one.

Blue Lightning is a great showcase of lightning fingers dancing over guitar strings, and it is a good album. I think it works really well and fans of instrumental music will enjoy the first part while others who enjoys power metal and that sort of thing will enjoy the ending. You can be really impressed by good fast fingering on the guitars but the thing is that there are many good fingerers and Evan may or may not rank amongst the better ones – I cannot really tell as there are many good guitarist that does pretty understated work. This one is more for the one into the guitar stuff but then we have the end that is a strange shift from the opening instrumental album, I don’t know if that is good as I personally think that the album would have been better had the songs with vocals been more spread out throughout the album.

The songs are pretty good all the way through, a bit familiar perhaps but still good. The fourth track Picking the Stars is a really good track that I like quite a bit, but I think that the best one on the album is the ending cover track and the album only really comes alive at this point. So even with star picking and lightning fingers it is still an old track that doesn’t really have that much of lightning stuff that shines the most. In the end I think that this is a pretty good album and one that fans of quick fingering guitarists will enjoy.

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