Album Review : Pandora's Key - First full-length album entitled "Yet I Remain" / release date January 27, 2024 // All Time Metal \\
On January 27, 2024, the band Pandora's Key will release their first full-length album titled "Yet I Remain"
The melodic metal band Pandora’s Key was formed in Breda in 2016, releasing their EP “Prometheus’ Promise”(2017), with international success. The band has won several competitions over the years, including the FemMe audience award in 2019. In 2024 Pandora’s Key will release their debut album “Yet I Remain”, which they will present at a release show at the Mezz in Breda, the Netherlands, on the 27th of January 2024.
Artist: Pandora’s Key
Title: Yet I Remain
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
Tracklist:
01. 1779 (Intro)
02. De Bockereyder
03. Ariadne
04. Freedom’s Call
05. Falls The Shadow
06. The Keening
07. Kinding Ire
08. The Flying Dutchman
09. Icarus
10. Per Ardua
Review:
The album opens with the Intro "1779", with the sound of hurdy gurdy and sound effects that include lightning, horse hooves, church bells which gives us a taste of what is about to come.
All the songs have their own identity, each of them being a mini-movie, but some of them stand out.
"De Bockereyder" is a reference to the local folk legend of the same name, with the accordion sound perfectly fitting the heavy rhythm and deathgrunts vocals.
"The Keening", with its unreal screams, artfully encompasses several genres of metal without losing its symphonic identity and could be the soundtrack of an epic motion picture.
"The Flying Dutchman", the well-known legend, a love story in symphonic metal sound, with the participation of violin and accordion that artfully gives its folk elements.
And "Per Ardua", an unusual amazing symphonic/gothic metal opera.
"Yet I Remain" is a melodic/symphonic metal album, which masterfully includes many genres of metal (power/thrash/death/gothic/doom), as well as folk elements, which with the participation of the choir takes on an operatic style and could be performed wonderfully by a symphony orchestra, as well as the sound effects that give a cinematic feel, and could musically accompany motion pictures.
A symphonic metal album that's evolved and rich musically and vocally.
Excellent! Complete 10/10 !
Pandora’s Key are:
Vera Veldhuizen - clean vocals
Rik van Schaaik - heavy vocals
Sebastiaan Pongers - lead guitar
Bram Luiken - rhythm guitar
Regine Lotstra - bass
Dimmy Marcelissen - drums
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