Trick or Treat
Creepy Symphonies

How many albums has songs about sunglasses and nice judgement days? Probably not many, but here is one. Italian band Trick or Treat is already one of my favourite contemporary power metal bands, with countrymen of Skeletoon being close competitors along with very select few others. These bands have one thing in common, and that is the fact that they do not take themselves too seriously. Power metal is ridiculous to begin with and if you like Manowar or Rhapsody try to make it too serious it becomes cringeworthy and extremely ridiculous, the secret is the right amount of silliness. Kind of like the cover of the seventh album by Trick or Treat, and Creepy Symphonies, how serious can they take themselves?

I suppose they are very serious about the music, in order to make it so catchy, so infectious, so positive; and then take the seriousness of the lyrics completely differently and you get an album that is so silly that it is great. Just like the best power metal is, none of the best power metal albums can be considered to be anything but silly. On Creepy Symphonies we are treated to some nasty trick or treating with grave consequences for the one who doesn’t give a treat. Then we get through songs where the themes vary from ridiculous to quite serious with Global Warming, life on social media as the latter. All done tongue in cheek. And with an excellent production, great vocalist, and perfect variation as well as playing time.

I just realised that I completely adore this album, it is quite fantastic. The music is so positive, so catchy, so much like the power metal I always hope to get but that rarely finds its way to my music players. The one slight negative is that the singer’s Italian accent sometimes makes it hard to make out the words, a bit of a shame considering that the lyrics for this album are mostly brilliant. I love their take on social media in Queen of Life and global warming on Have a Nice Judgement Day with the latter having a brilliant text line that I will soon throw in the faces of all those annoying petrol and diesel huggers when they complain about drought, higher prices due to bad harvests, bad winters, the heat, and whatever else the global warming will bring to us thanks to our excessive lifestyles. É divertente.

So, in expectance of that nice judgement day I will thoroughly enjoy this album that makes me smile, and I will sit in my airconditioned room with my sunglasses on watching the world in flames due to human stupidity knowing that we finally got what we deserved for our many years of creepy symphonies and wars. I suggest you give this a chance, the likelihood of a better power metal album 2022 is practically nonexistant.

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