Sleeping Romance Enlighten

2013, ENLIGHTEN is the debut full-length studio album by Italian symphonic metal act Sleeping Romance. The release is a concept album that, in the band's words, deals with ´a travel into the human soul who is crashing into the world: fighting, loving and to be born again`. Sleeping Romance play a brand of symphonic metal which by this stage is all too familiar to both those who like this sort of music and those who don't. Epic arrangements, heavy guitars, female vocals and a tendency to stray into power metal territory. Fortunately for Sleeping Romance they showcase on their debut that unlike many artists in this particular game that they know how to do things right. The symphonic elements are extremely powerful, the riffs varied between full on power metal speed and more mid to slower paced stuff, and the music is also much less openly pop inclined than acts like The Murder Of My Sweet or Within Temptation can be.