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Avant-garde Metal – “Hyperspeed” Review

This album is a milestone of epic electro metal and gives you hymn by hymn a whole universe of majestic choirs, futuristic synthesizers, unforgettable hit melodies, brilliant arrangements and brutal, sophisticated metal sounds. My personal favorite for the best AGM album of the year 2012. Majestic and martial the giant spaceship is landing. Turbo engines [...]

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Global Domination – “Hyperspeed” Review

The first thing that came to my mind was that Dol Ammad was another generic symphonic power metal band, perhaps with some Nintendo-like samples every now and then. I was very, very far from the truth. There are bedroom projects and there are

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Sea Of Tranquility – “Hyperspeed” Review

The songs (in Hyperspeed) flow into each other, with the choir’s amazing voices providing the main focal point to a myriad of musical backing, almost sounding like Vangelis wandering into a choral recital, where Gamma Ray decided to set up for a jam. You won’t find music like Dol Ammad anywhere else. Having already released [...]

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Sea Of Tranquility – “Ocean Dynamics” Review

The results when backed by the symphonic metal riffs, layers of synths and electronica are surprisingly coherent and form music with a filmic quality. In fact anyone else that I have played Dol Ammad’s music to has commented that it is more like listening to a movie soundtrack than a “metal” album. If it helps, [...]

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Sea Of Tranquility – “The Universe Expands” Review

What is surprising though is that considering that the Dol Ammad albums featured nearly twenty contributors, The Universe Expands sounds no less grand in scale, or broad in execution for only having three. – STEVEN REID Having release two albums under the guise of Dol Ammad (2004′s Star Tales and Ocean Dynamics two years later), [...]

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Sea Of Tranquility – “Winds Of The Sun” Review

This is interesting and innovative music that borrows from such a wide variety of places that the end results are unsurprisingly original, but pleasantly coherent and engaging.  - STEVEN REID Thanassis Lightbridge is a Greek composer whose vision is to create what he calls Electronica-Art-Metal. To do this he has devised not one but two [...]

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Metal Perspective – “Winds Of The Sun” review

This 5 tracks EP comes in digital format only and it mainly showcases another round of collaboration between DC Cooper of Royal Hunt fame and Thanasis Lightbridge. And I say mainly, because from the 4 remaining tracks only “Birth Of A Dream” (a Jarre and Vangelis heavily influenced melody) is brand new, as “Black Winter [...]

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Hardsounds – “The Winds Of The Sun” Review (in Italian)

Here is a review from Fabio in Hardsounds. Thank you my friend and I can assure you that the main dish will be succulent in the right place Ciaooo Dopo due album di buon spessore ed interesse torna il compositore greco Thanasis Lightbridge portandoci un lieto antipasto del prossimo disco. L’EP ‘Winds Of The Sun’ [...]

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The Pit of the Damned – “Winds Of The Sun” Review (in Italian)

Our buoni amici over at The Pit of the Damned Blog wrote a great review for the “Winds Of The Sun” even though they don’t review EPs. Thank you for your exception and cheers to Francesco! Ciao Italia! Domenica pomeriggio: mentre il sole tramonta e le tenebre invernali si impossessano del cielo, mi arriva la [...]

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Heavylaw – “Winds Of The Sun” Review (French)

Thanasis: If you know French I think you will enjoy this great review for “Winds Of The Sun” from our friends in Heavylaw. Merci beaucoup! Dol Ammad – “Winds Of The Sun” – 8/10 By Quetzalcoalt – 12/11/2010 Et si on allait faire un petit tour dans l’espace aujourd’hui? On pourrait bronzer façon steak semelle, [...]

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