{"id":103607,"date":"2024-07-19T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103607"},"modified":"2024-07-26T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:25:12","slug":"album-review-skyeye-new-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-skyeye-new-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"SKYEYE – New Horizons (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SKYEYE
New Horizons<\/strong><\/span>
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\nReaper Entertainment (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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What an adrenaline shot to the system this is, the third full-length outing from Slovenian quintet SkyEye. I haven\u2019t heard the previous two albums from the band, but this is a scorcher that mixes German power metal and traditional steel. All manner influences storm in, ranging from Gamma Ray to Dio, Helloween to Iron Maiden.<\/p>\n

When opener \u2018The Descenders\u2019 kicks in it\u2019s game over and you wonder if the band can maintain such levels of potency, but don\u2019t you worry, New Horizons<\/em> although very polished, literally breathes fire. There is a sense of the grandiose as the album unravels, especially with the defiant \u2018Fight!\u2019 where vocalist Jan Le\u0161\u010danec conjures the spirit of Ronnie James Dio. It\u2019s driving heavy metal that sizzles with anthemic electricity.<\/p>\n

\u2018Far Beyond\u2019 boasts wafts of Iron Maiden and showcases the power of the vocals once again, as does \u2018Railroad Of Dreams\u2019, but it\u2019s not all striding balls to the wall metal. \u2018Saraswati\u2019 is arguably the albums darkest moment, a brooding mid-tempo rocker with doom laden riffs from Mare Kav\u010dnik and Urban \u017deleznik and sneering, menacing vocals.<\/p>\n

At times I hear the gargantuan tones of Heaven & Hell, other moments brisk gallops of Helloween, but it\u2019s all wrapped up in impenetrable chainmail and emphatically flattens forest and fen with its colossal strides of steel. Every department exhibits a richness and warmth; bass lines run like golden rivers and the percussion lopes like proud stallions mounted by glinting knights.<\/p>\n

Forget those long Iron Maiden snooze fests and jump into closing track \u20181917\u2019 for some seriously epic metal. But then again every track delivered just brims with confidence as huge melodies erupt from the icy regions of \u2018The Voice From The Silver Mountain\u2019, while \u2018Nightfall\u2019 is pure power metal glory with its ascending axe work and the title tune borders on thrash. A glorious heavy metal opus, New Horizons<\/em> just knows how to rock hard and those scorch marks will be visible for miles.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SKYEYENew Horizons Reaper Entertainment (2024)Rating: 8.5\/10 What an adrenaline shot to the system this is, the third full-length outing from Slovenian quintet SkyEye. I haven\u2019t heard the previous two albums from the band, but this is a scorcher that mixes German power metal and traditional steel. All manner influences storm in, ranging from Gamma Ray […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5739],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-skyeye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103608,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103607\/revisions\/103608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}