Hekz – Caerus – BMHAudio
By Jeffrey Easton
If you know me you know I find most forms of power metal and newer prog to be a bore because after so many albums in the genre there is nowhere to go as all the tricks are gone. Enter Hekz, hailing from England and ready to set the world a fire with their brand of energetic power metal. Now let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, the genre is played out and it would take a lot to make me say holy S. This CD did not make me say that. There are parts of the album that made me stop and take notice, a keyboard melody here or a riff there but overall the album is a stunning let down. There is nothing new here and nothing to offer a fan of the genre looking for something new. One of the downgrades of the album is the singer, Matt Young. His delivery is tepid and bland, doing nothing to catch my ear and doing more to make me press eject. There are nine tracks here and I can’t even think of one to really point out and say this moved me. If you are going to pull off this genre you need range and power and that is something that is absent here. Even the art is tepid because nobody has done lightning, a cloudy sky and a sinking galleon before. Nobody….. Or has almost every band done that? Hmm. Note to Hekz, go back to the drawing board, rethink the approach and try again.
Official Hekz site
Buy Caerus
By Jeffrey Easton
If you know me you know I find most forms of power metal and newer prog to be a bore because after so many albums in the genre there is nowhere to go as all the tricks are gone. Enter Hekz, hailing from England and ready to set the world a fire with their brand of energetic power metal. Now let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, the genre is played out and it would take a lot to make me say holy S. This CD did not make me say that. There are parts of the album that made me stop and take notice, a keyboard melody here or a riff there but overall the album is a stunning let down. There is nothing new here and nothing to offer a fan of the genre looking for something new. One of the downgrades of the album is the singer, Matt Young. His delivery is tepid and bland, doing nothing to catch my ear and doing more to make me press eject. There are nine tracks here and I can’t even think of one to really point out and say this moved me. If you are going to pull off this genre you need range and power and that is something that is absent here. Even the art is tepid because nobody has done lightning, a cloudy sky and a sinking galleon before. Nobody….. Or has almost every band done that? Hmm. Note to Hekz, go back to the drawing board, rethink the approach and try again.
Official Hekz site
Buy Caerus