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EMERALD EYE
Night Without Day

Self-released (2024)
Rating: 8/10

Marrying melodic rock with power metal, Kansas City, Missouri-based metalheads Emerald Eye releases its strong debut full-length album five years after their inception.

Night Without Day is a peculiar brew at times due to the subtle progressive edges and the spattering of keyboards. As an opus it comes littered with nifty rhythms and even an element of fragility in spite of the band being happy to compile several galloping numbers.

Vocalist Brett Scott has a rather fluid, clear tone which, when matched with the crisp music, is somewhat sublime in its prowess. It’s by no means a light record and at times nods towards Fates Warning combined with lighter fragrances of busy power metal and, say, Crimson Glory. Songs like ‘Silken Throne’, ‘Winged Woman’ and the slower ‘Revenge Of The Being’ boast a classic heavy metal spine as each song is drizzled with scintillating solos and the potent bass of Nick Poffinbarger.

Emerald Eye save the best songs for last too, the album getting stronger with the superb ‘Feast And Famine’ and ‘Hellstar’, both of which boast a clinical German structure, but Emerald Eye are far from being a colourless combo. The keyboards and vocals make sure that the listener is swept up in quite an emotional yet fiery batch of songs of varying tempos, but which keep the American heavy metal flag flying.

Neil Arnold

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