About a week ago, a friend who has a record label polled his friends to see if anyone would be interested in a metal album that wasn’t in English and to his surprise, nearly everyone was, myself included.  Years ago, I was introduced to Angel 7 through their Black and White album, which came out in 2004.  To put it mildly, I was literally blown away and all the vocals were in either Russian or Ukranian as the band is from the Ukraine.  This was around the time Dragonforce was popular due largely to “Through the Fire and Flames” being on the Guitar Hero video game and in Angel 7 I could hear guitar of similar skill and craziness but with more of a melodic death metal feel to it…instant fan.

This is the fifth album for the band from Kyiv, Ukraine and the third with a title in English, which is somewhat surprising as the lyrics and vocals are in Ukrainian or Russian (not exactly sure which).  Let’s just say there are a lot of song titles in Cyrillic and I can’t even attempt to translate.  Going off their bandcamp page, Седьмой Ангел was their first album (2001), followed by Black and White (2004), Silver Sky (2005), Любовь никогда не умрет (Love Will Never Die, 2012), and now Last Revolution (2014).  From what I’ve heard from the band, the overall process of recording Last Revolution brought many challenges, some of which most of us can never directly relate.  Continue reading »