Track Listing

1. Crows Fly Back
2. Traitor
3. Ashes To The Stars
4. Messenger Of Gods
5. Before The Skies Come Down
6. Tides
7. Bleeding Dust
8. You
9. Howl
10. Grey
11. Veteran Of Psychic Wars
12. Tarot Media Player

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #151504 in Music
• Released on: 2007-01-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Customer Reviews

Tarot - Crows Fly Back
TAROT are a Finish metal band who released their debut album way back in 1986. However, since 2002, their name has been the subject of greater exposure as frontman Marco Hielta joined the Finish symphonic metal giants NIGHTWISH. In NIGHTWISH he provides the male lead vocals and also plays bass. (Yes, he's that guy with the wacky facial hair!)



TAROT's style is very much classic 80's JUDAS PRIEST style heavy metal but with a twist as the atmosphere of the record is very dark due to the heavy use of low keyboard sounds. As proven by his NIGHTWISH live performances (during Tarja's mid show rest), Marco Hielta boasts a decent vocal range to handle this sort of material without a problem. His brother Zachary also does a decent job on guitar with some excellent solos on the album as well as portraying a healthy range of powerful riffs.



The songs on the album are all competent enough but the problem for me is that while the album is solid overall, not enough tracks are good enough to blow your head off and none have choruses that leave an imprint in your memory. The opener, and title track `Crows Fly Back' kicks things off really well, but it's only until the seventh track `Bleeding Dust' until that level of quality is reached again. In the middle of those two is the album's odd-ball track `Tides', a lengthy melancholic ballad and a reasonable one at that.



If you're a big fan of Hielta's vocals in NIGHTWISH then you should enjoy this record. This is a good solid metal album and won't disappoint, but it's nothing new and it's very unlikely to set anyone's world alight anytime soon.