Narnia
s/t

Since 2009 it has been rather quiet in the wardrobe, no roaring lions or preaching peasants or anything else has been heard. Some have been missing them, others (like myself) haven’t even noticed that they haven’t done anything in a while but now they are back to celebrate twenty years as a band. Twenty years is an impressive feat for any band but I guess that won’t so hard if you have god on your side and being a prophet of god and christ has to have some merit to them as they keep preaching, even now.

The new self titled album sounds like what they have done before, poppy, super-catchy melodic metal with over-polished production and whatever else you can expect from a modern album within this genre. No surprises here, but a good album that will most certainly appeal to their fans, I think it is better than the previous album perhaps mostly because of a better vocalist. They make music that is short and to the point, preachy and ostentatious with too much focus on god and other biblical crap.

Like with metal and hardrock in general you are better off not bothering with the lyrics as the poor literate quality and those things often makes me vomit. Sure my literary qualities in review writing isn’t that brilliant or original either but writing a review isn’t really a creative effort just a view on something I have heard. This album is actually quite good if you overlook their tendency to think of themselves as prophets, where the third track is the least flattering example. There are however some great stuff here as well so fans of Narnia can rejoice that we finally get to hear something from the wardrobe again but the lion’s roar is more like a cat’s meow just like it usually is with Narnia.

The first track is a real highlight on an album that otherwise could just as well have remained somewhere deep inside the wardrobe. It is not that it is bad, it is actually a good album but the problem is that it isn’t very hard to think of hundreds of better albums in the genre and that means that it will most likely be very forgotten very soon.

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