Their debut 'World of Black and Silver" was released in 1999, and they have since the debut launched records on a regularly basis. This is their sixth release, so we can't call them lazy. Last album 'Dead City Dreaming' was a huge step forward for the band. The songs became catchier and perhaps the biggest change was: Danish singer Soren Nico Adamsen joined the band.

Fortunately Nico is still singing on this album, the man has a perfect voice for this kind of metal, he places the songs on a higher level. I assume that Mikael Dahl (guitar) wrote most of the songs again. He has excellent writing skills; I haven't listened to many songs lately as good as "Waves of War", most of the songs, but this one in particular has excellent and catchy guitar riffs, combined with lots of melody and bombast, and the melody in the song is very addictive.

Of course their main influences: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Helloween put a stamp on the music, but what band in this genre can say differently? With this album Crystal Eyes achieves to get almost alongside them. A lot of genre rivals would kill for such a vocalist and gets jealous over such catchy melodic song writing capacity.

One of the best in this genre lately! Thumbs up!