Album Review: Anna KiaRa - Third full-length album "Symphony Of Rage" - Independent Release // All Time Metal \\

 


Anna KiaRa and her band will be release the 3rd full-length album "Symphony Of Rage" on June 5, 2025


Artist/Band: Anna KiaRa

Country: Russia

Formed In: 2019

Genre: Symphonic Metal

Album: Symphony Of Rage

Label: Independent Release

Format: Digital

Tracklist:

01. Blood Of Heroes

02. Excalibur

03. She-Wolf

04. Journey To The Stars

05. Symphony Of Rage

06. Icy Wasteland

07. Poetry Of Despair

08. Reborn

09. Flight Of Valkyrie

10. Кровь Героев

11. Экскалибур

12. Волчица

13. Симфония Огня

14. Ледяная Пустошь

15. Полет Валькирии


Album Review:

 The third full-length album "Symphony Of Rage", is being prepared to be released by Anna KiaRa with her band, an album which is different from the previous two, more dense in composition and even richer in symphonic parts.

"Symphony Of Rage" contains 15 tracks, the 9 main songs are in English and 6 of them in Russian language.

These 6 songs, which are (Blood Of Heroes / Кровь Героев), (Excalibur / Экскалибур), (She-Wolf / Волчица), (Symphony Of Rage / Симфония Огня), (Icy Wasteland / Ледяная Пустошь) and (Flight Of The Valkyrie / Полет Валькирии), which are exactly the same composition and perfectly translated into Russian and performed flawlessly with operatic vocals by Anna, who's  a distinguished soprano in Russia.

I was excited listening to these 6 songs, since the Russian language is the language of classical literature, classical poetry and opera and it fits perfectly into symphonic metal compositions, adding to these compositions there is also a feeling of high quality classical poetry.

I return to the 9 basic compositions which are completely different from each other.

"Blood Of Heroes" is an epic/symphonic power metal composition with medieval elements that begins and ends like a ballad,

"Excalibur" is an epic, medieval ballad with rich symphonic parts in which the flute and violin take the lead and the intense drums give it a power note,"She-Wolf" which has an intro sound effect of walking on a dirt road, in which we hear an entire symphonic orchestra and an amazing gothic style of playing on the Organ, with surprisingly intense drums, which we could characterize as orchestral/gothic/power metal.

"Journey To The Stars" is a wonderful symphonic metal ballad, the amazing "Symphony Of Rage" whose male death vocals and female choir make it an innovative, symphonic/choral/death metal composition,"Icy Wasteland" which starts with a sound effect of strong wind, symphonic metal composition with gothic elements and a creepy sense of psychedelia from the horror riff of a piano, which song could be used in a horror movie.

I continue with "Poetry Of Despair", which features fast and intense drums, heavy guitars in combination with symphonic parts and identifies it as a symphonic/operatic/black metal composition, "Reborn" which is a melodic, melancholic ballad, and the last song, "Flight Of Valkyrie" whose main rhythm is Irish Folk style, and is an amazing symphonic/folk metal composition.

In the compositions the guitar is sometimes discreet and sometimes strongly present and with wonderful short solos, the bass although discreet is present and fights alongside the drums, including Anna's wonderful voice which is sometimes operatic and sometimes melodic, in an amazing combination with the choir backing vocals.

"Symphony Of Rage" is not another symphonic metal release, it is a diverse compositional creation, mature and with a professional approach in all aspects.

This album will not leave any metal music fan unmoved! Enjoy it!

Excellent!

Complete! 10/10

 


Infos of the band:

Anna KiaRa is a symphonic/power metal band founded by Anna in 2019 as a solo project, which evolved into a full band in 2022. They have released two albums, Storyteller (2020) and Archangel (2022), with their third album, Symphony Of Rage, set for release on June 5, 2025. 
The band's musical style is based on classical symphonic metal, but also combines elements of different metal genres such a power metal, symphonic black metal, modern and heavy metal.
Anna is well-know in the metal world through her previous work with the band Imperial Age (2016 - 2023) with whom she made many European tours and was working with such band's as Therion, Orphaned Land, Rotting Christ etc. 
After she parted ways with them in 2023, Anna already had two European and one UK  tour with her band.

European line up:
Anna KiaRa Moiseeva - vocals
Maarten Jung - Guitar 
Daan Winkelhorst - drums
Joline Vergouwen - bass

Russian line-up:
Anna KiaRa Moiseeva - vocals 
Paul Vredes Maryashin - guitar 
Dmitriy Baxanov - bass
Semen Starshinov - drums

Anna KiaRa links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Music | Patreon

Review by Anastasia Tetoula
for ALL TIME METAL

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