Seventh Avenue

Sabbatharian wrote:I don't know, I quite like the band. Singer reminds me of the latter Helloween vocalist.

mothy wrote:Although a 1 album and done band this is really Helloween like



 

Snert I wrote:
As for Adiastasia: The production of the first release was lacking bass and I think, that made it a hard listen for me. Recently, after a long time, I gave it a new chance, turning up the bass a lot - and it sounded pretty good!

As far as I know, the album was re-released with better production several years ago.

Andreas89 wrote:I don't know if it's the (early) Helloween sound they try to emulate. There's some similarity with early Helloween, especially the Walls of Jericho album. I'd say it's more Gamma Ray and vaguely early Blind Guardian they sound like. The biggest difference between those bands and SA is that unfortunately, SA's album tend to get overlong and boring. Maybe it's a lack of talent for self-editing; each album I know by them has about 40-45 worth of good music, the other 20-30 minutes are just annoying.

Friday13th wrote:Yes, like Helloween, Gamma Ray and Blind Guardian and not original in any way. Wouldn’t crack my top 20 Christian metal bands, but I still think they’re quite good melody and harmony-wise, hitting their stride on Southgate with some more variety and progressive touches. I like the singer a lot, same guy for Sinbreed which is also very good.

Thiago-Brazil wrote:

Andreas89 wrote:I don't know if it's the (early) Helloween sound they try to emulate. There's some similarity with early Helloween, especially the Walls of Jericho album. I'd say it's more Gamma Ray and vaguely early Blind Guardian they sound like. The biggest difference between those bands and SA is that unfortunately, SA's album tend to get overlong and boring. Maybe it's a lack of talent for self-editing; each album I know by them has about 40-45 worth of good music, the other 20-30 minutes are just annoying.

Just my impressions about the lenght of Seventh Avenue albums.

Friday13th wrote:@Pro-Zak Seventh Avenue is one of the best Christian power metal bands, but of them all I only adore Theocracy. Matt Smith’s songwriting is head and shoulders above the rest imo. Other good ones are Sacred Warrior, Narnia, Harmony, and Divinefire, but unless it’s top notch power metal like Theocracy it doesn’t thrill me as much. 

Black Rider wrote:That Dark Star is pretty good, never listened to them before.

Friday13th wrote:@Pro-Zak Seventh Avenue is one of the best Christian power metal bands, but of them all I only adore Theocracy. Matt Smith’s songwriting is head and shoulders above the rest imo. Other good ones are Sacred Warrior, Narnia, Harmony, and Divinefire, but unless it’s top notch power metal like Theocracy it doesn’t thrill me as much.

Pro-Zak wrote:

Friday13th wrote:@Pro-Zak Seventh Avenue is one of the best Christian power metal bands, but of them all I only adore Theocracy. Matt Smith’s songwriting is head and shoulders above the rest imo. Other good ones are Sacred Warrior, Narnia, Harmony, and Divinefire, but unless it’s top notch power metal like Theocracy it doesn’t thrill me as much. 

Yea, I enjoy those bands much more than SA as well, but not really because they are better, but a different breed of Power Metal. Not really speed metal like SA, Helloween, Sinner et al, but more songs w/chunky riffs you can sink your teeth into, and the epic jams as well.

Pro-Zak
Speaking of Harmony, what happened to them?

Andreas89 wrote:

Friday13th wrote:@Pro-Zak Seventh Avenue is one of the best Christian power metal bands, but of them all I only adore Theocracy. Matt Smith’s songwriting is head and shoulders above the rest imo. Other good ones are Sacred Warrior, Narnia, Harmony, and Divinefire, but unless it’s top notch power metal like Theocracy it doesn’t thrill me as much.

Well to be quite honest, if I were to take one step back and look upon the genre and the bands more objectively (if such a thing is even possible), I'd say that Theocracy is the only band that genuinely has a place in the absolute top of power metal. There's bands with potential (thinking of Northern Flame and maybe Fearless at the moment), but potential does not equal achievement.

And I'm not sure if I would place SA in a top 20 of best christian power metal bands. I mean, I'd rank about any band with Christian Liljegren above them, so that's at least four bands before them  
I am happy that people enjoy SA though.

Friday13th wrote:

 Christian Liljegren is obviously very prolific, a great singer and a lot of it very good, no doubt. The Enter the Gate album has always been my favorite. He also makes some very cheesey music videos if we're being honest! 

Friday13th wrote:

I've never heard of Northern Flame or Fearless. Are they new? I recall you and I have some pretty similar tastes, so would you mind shooting me a couple songs from them? I'll probably enjoy.