Steamhammer Us [Spv]
2005
The Black Halo
About This Album
Much to their credit, American progressive metal stalwarts Kamelot have consistently tread a very distinctive and personal path throughout their career, paying little mind to popular trends or passing fashions, and, as a result, gaining a fan following more dedicated than most. These fans won't be disappointed with the band's seventh studio album, 2005's typically accomplished and eclectic Black Halo, which immediately bucks ordinary metallic expectations when it chooses the majestic, slow-building "March of Mephisto" as an opener ahead of second track "When the Lights Go Down"'s opening of the power metal floodgates. Of course that's because, despite often running in similar performing and recording circles (this album, in fact, being cut in Germany) as Europe's power metal elite, Kamelot easily transcend most subgenre limitations by looking both backwards and forwards, to classic heavy metal and progressive metal horizons, respectively. Enter the band's on-going study of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poetic dramatization of Faust, a project carried over from their previous album, 2003's Epica, and interwoven into much of the band's own concepts here.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,5,7,8 and 10)

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