Traumer
Avalon

Avalon is the title of this album, the second one for Brazilian power metalists that call themselves Traumer. They actually spell their name with a capital letter at the beginning and at the end but that just looks silly so I will not write like that in my review. Other than silly name writing they seem to have an affinity for clichés, their two albums The Great Metal Storm and Avalon aren’t exactly titles that make you wonder how they sound. The cover also screams power metal, but it is cool with that owl and sensation of being on the surface of an alien world.

Alien is not exactly what we are talking about when it comes to the music, unless we are talking opposites because it is the opposite of alien. Something much easier to know than the opposite of a cat, with familiar riffs, familiar melodies, familiar vocalist, and familiar songs it is an album you immediately will know how it sounds. No surprises on this album, it is a very familiar sound we get and that will probably sounds great to some but as a critic I want more than the familiar.

The album is good, no denying that. I like the songs; they work and are easy to take to. The vocals are always good, as is the sound that has enough power and feeling not to sound overproduced and that is certainly a positive. It should be appealing for fans of the genre as they press all the buttons that they like. With strong songs like Forever Starts Tomorrow and Changes it is a nice album to spend a while listening to, but it is also an album you forget rather quickly as no matter how enjoyable it is to listen to the songs they are still not that memorable.

So it is not really an album that makes a lasting impression, I think Traumer need to up their game if they really want to matter. Their music is solid but in the end they are just copying what others have done before them, and that is rarely a recipe for brilliance. I would say that it is an album for the fans.

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