Dreamaker – “Enclosed”
Spain’s Dreamaker have a lot to offer: memorable songs, variety, punch, crunchy guitar work, energetic drumming and strong singing. The double bass and the punch of the guitars mix very well with Elisa C. Martin’s voice. I’m surprised at how much better the album gets with each listen. “Perfect Soul” starts out with a blasting part, which then turns in a double-bass thrash barrage of lower, male vocals alternating with Elisa’s gutsy singing. That song is not an oddity, either. The range of songs is something to notice, too, which goes from midpaced heavy metal to thrash. Their sound does not have anything particularly national; it’s just punchy power metal. There are many good traditional metal bands that just don’t get much press in North America because there’s always some trend that people get suckered into, like cheesy rap rock passing off as metal or predictable Pantera clones playing hardcore or whatever.