Renatus

Progressive Power Metal with a fantastic lead vocal performance from Nils Molin, who shows range, power, and a gritty emotive quality most front men would commit a felony to obtain. If you go back and listen to their previous album, "Sultans of Sin" (available in full on youtube), this new album is an even more surprising transformation in style. The Glam Metal is gone, and the Heavy Metal is present only on the fringe of certain guitar solos and in the lead vocal delivery. We are now blessed with epic Power Metal choruses, Progressive Metal left turns blended seemlessly, impressing with the effect of all-wheel drive on a sun-baked race track. Speaking of speed, there are no ballads on this album, just straight-forward, accelerating songcraft, tightly engineered with excellent band interplay, chrome-plated with superb production sound. The lyrics are intelligent, as well, being one who actually pays close attention to such things, I am grateful and enthralled with the purposeful words blasting forth. This is a smart, inspired album, driven beautifully on every track, crossing the finish line in victory, one clenched fist raised high in the air.

Holy cow! I had heard this band's previous release, SULTANS OF SIN, and while it was consistent, fairly catchy melodic hard rock, it wasn't really my bag. For this release, they have evolved into a full-on, adrenaline-fueled melodic power metal extravaganza. There's enough diversity to keep it interesting, but there's a good bit of gallop throughout, and it pulls you along firmly & with gusto. One of few releases to have pretty much no "fillers," in my opinion. The whole thing begs listening (but don't worry, it's not of epic length. In fact, I'd have been happy if it were 15 minutes longer, as long as the quality of the extra minutes didn't lag). What a ride!

Unbelievable album from these Swedish rockers turned metal heads. Fans of their earlier albums may not be so keen on this as this sounds nothing like their 80s style rock albums. This is pure euro metal. Brilliant musicianship, and Nils soaring vocals are much better suited to this style of music in my opinion. If you dig quality metal with proper clean vocals you seriously cannot pass this album up, already my favourite album of the year!

Great album!

I understand the disappointment from the fans who expected another typical offering from Dynazty, but can you fault the guys for evolving? I don't think so. If you D-fans want great 80's style rock than set up a Pandora channel under Dokken... or keep listening to your collection of music that's 30 years old. I'm not bashing any of you guys, I've got plenty of old cds lying around myself, but do you really want all the new bands that start up to keep turning out 'WhiteSnake' tunes?? Anyway, I was curious so I bought Bring The Thunder to give a comparative listen and while Dynazty did a good job of recreating the music of an era gone by, I think they do an even better job producing more modern, progressive melodic metal. I have more gripes about the horribly flimsy CD case than anything else. 80's style rock is what it was... let it go :) no one will ever surpass the accomplishments of Ozzy, Maiden, the Scorps, Dokken, Bon Jovi, White Snake, VH, Dream Theatre, Queensryche, Rush, TNT, Metallica, Y&T, Def leppard, Yngwie, Dio or the Bee Gees ... ah, the 'golden years' - lol. What a great decade for music... but it's gone and time to move ahead.Upon the first couple of listens I heard things that made me wonder if Dynazty had self produced the album, and sure enough when I checked, they had. This is typically a "no no" (think Yngwie - yikes) unless you're Tony Harnell or Jorn, especially when such great producers like Dennis Ward are available. A good producer would have, in my opinion, reduced the number of triplet heavy songs that open the album; included a song or two of 80's style bash to appease original fan base; encouraged a pop-metal tune for fun or heavy blues throwback - something to break up the pounding triplet theme - and would have cut the amount of words used in track 6, Run Amok. As it is, and lots of vocalists fall into this trap, the lyrical lines of Run Amok, literally run amok over a classic metal riff that's delivered rather nicely. Imagine half the words held out over twice the beats with the hook and chorus remaining the same...! I think they really blew an opportunity to create one monster of a song. There is another track, I think 4 or 5 that I was thinking would have been really interesting if they had slowed it waaay down, adagio perhaps. But hey, they did a fine job. Come to think of it, they could have slowed the whole darn thing down just a tad to reduce the feeling of it being rushed through.What I found most interesting was the change in lyrical themes between the "then" and the "now" and wondered if the singer, Nils Molson went through some sort of religious experience? There's a lot 'redemption' and 'salvation' sung about on this album which is cool with me because I gravitate towards the positive themes; just don't start singing 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus saves...' if I want that I'll listen to Toby Mac, Britt Nicole, Matt West, or Mandisa. And on that point, having religious themes isn't such a bad thing if you include the darker side as well (think Jorn).I think this move by Dynazty is a good one. Let me ask you this, what genre ISN'T over crowded these days with bands hoping for a break. I think their chances in the progressive metal market are significantly better than waisting time as just one more glorified 80's cover band. The talent is definitely there and with Dynazty settled in with a few new band mates they seem ready to conquer the world :) I like what they're doing. I hear similarities to Twilightning (RIP), Nocturnal Rites (8th Sin is incredible), Europe, Fire Wind and even Ayreon... holy smokes, the lead in track 3 (Dawn of Your Creation) begins in classic Michael Romeo (Sym X) style - it's smokin' !! I wanted to give a 5 star rating to up the average and encourage potential support but that wouldn't have been honest, but this album is surely worth a solid 4 stars. SO.. buy it, give the guys some support and maybe next time they'll have enough loose change lying around to hire Dennis Ward to produce them. Peace and always play it loud - BMonths Later - screw it!! This album just plain brings it!! I'm bumping it from 4 to 5 STARS :)

great album

Good new album from Dynazty, a lot heavier than where used to. But the songs are good even with the heavier sound to them now. Worth your money good album.

Love it... their singer is stellar and the guitar players really rock. One of the best finds in the last 12 months

Das Album strotzt nur so vor Energie, Power, fettem Sound und guten Kompositionen! Unbedingt reinhören - besonders bei dem aktuell günstigen Preis! Anspieltip: "Run Amok". Power Metal at its best!

...leider geil! So macht Heavy Metal einfach nur Spaß! Kann ich nur wärmstens empfehlen! Die Jungs habens verdient, gehört zu werden.