Until recently, only the name Steel Prophet was known to me. Until I found this CD in my mailbox. Immediately my attention was attracted to the name Vince Dennis, former bass-player of Tourniquet. Now he can show his talent through Steel Prophet. Dark Hallucinations contains power metal with speed metal influences. It reminds me of bands from long ago like Recon and the old Deliverance material. Especially the name Recon comes to mind. Also because Rick Mythiasin's vocals remind me sometimes in the higher ranges of Recon vocalist Vett Roberts. Musical ideas remind me of ideas Recon guitarist George Ochoa came up with. But Steel Prophet is a band with their own identity through different influences. Still, the basis of their music comes out of the eighties. According to me the high-point of this album is Strange Encounter that starts off fast. A beautiful guitar-lead joins, sustained by double bass to evolve into the first couplet. A few moment later they slow down to work towards the chorus. And then, like a rocket, the full metal onslaught goes on full speed ahead. Great song. Also the openingtrack Montag sounds good with a heavy pace and an almost spitting-like raw vocal-delivery whereby the leadguitarist constantly supplies solos. The song ends with supersonic speed of the pounding snare-drum and then the song dies away. Dark Hallucinations is an album interesting to the old metal-hordes and others as well.
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