Released on: 29th October 2021
Third album, and a monumental hat trick for the Greco-Finn-Hungarian group Beast In Black. Indeed, Dark Connection is an exciting and magical journey through power metal with good vibes and great choruses. With the only thing missing from the album a brush. Mainly because it captures a hair raising blast of refreshing feels and conscientious lyrics. What is sure to get every single hair on your body dancing like a field of renewables in a thunder storm.
To expanding and illustrate, it is with an unrelenting barrage of exciting riffs that Beast in Black fire off straight into the stratosphere of magic and mayhem. Consequently the groups takes the tried and tested sound of Power Metal and blends it seamlessly with the energy of Euro-beat. No-one sleeps in Tokyo? Well today, no-one sleeps in Helsinki. Dark Connection is just filled with energy. Where even in its slower moments it supplies a strong current of electric distortion and synthetic devotion merged with organic restraint.
In their purest form the songs on Dark Connection contrast inspiring with elating. Inciting serene moments of melodic intent. Yet where the electric guitar carries the body of the work the riffage is used with structural precision. Thus lifting the riffs; The abrasive tones of the distorted wall to complement the melodies. Without drowning out the emotion implied through the song writing.
Dark Connections is a headbanger. Truly, it is a command performance that will have you nodding your head along to and pretending to sing along to. Pretend, because the range on vocalist Yannis Papadopoulos is out of this world. Papadopoulos makes a powerful show on cover track They Don’t Care About Us. The track originally sung by Michael Jackson is: Just. Simply. Beautiful.
Beast In Black may just be the best super group you have never heard of. Make time to remedy that. You are welcome.
8/10
