DREAM EVIL – Evilized

Dream Evil – Evilized (2003, Century Media Records)

Track Listing:
1. “Break the Chains” … 3:32
2. “By My Side” … 3:38
3. “Fight You ‘Till the End” … 3:53
4. “Evilized” … 4:43
5. “Invisible” … 2:53
6. “Bad Dreams” … 3:10
7. “Forevermore” … 5:08
8. “Children of the Night” … 4:45
9. “Live a Lie” … 3:26
10. “Fear the Night” … 3:47
11. “Made of Metal” … 3:55
12. “The End” … 4:23

Band:
Niklas Isfeldt – Vocals
Fredrik Nordström – Guitars, Keyboards
Gus G. – Guitars
Peter Stålfors – Bass
Snowy Shaw – Drums

Produced by: Dream Evil

80s-influenced power metal from Sweden! I first became aware of Dream Evil in 2004 and immediately fell in love with them. I must’ve downloaded sampled their songs somewhere, because I remember ordering Evilized and that year’sThe Book of Heavy Metal at the same time.

This is just a great album all around: full of catchy choruses, proclamations of love for metal, some nice power ballads and great guitar work. And I have to point of the soaring vocals of Niklas Isfeldt. The guy is probably one of my favorite metal singers.

“Bad Dreams” sounds like a lost Dio song, but what do you expect from a band that shares their name with a Dio album? “Forevermore” is a pretty beautiful ballad and even I haven’t heard the album for awhile, I find it popping it in my head every now and then.

Highlights: “By My Side”, “Evilized”, “Forevermore”, “Children of the Night”, “Made of Metal”, “The End”

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