Four tracks is not quite enough for a rating, especially not when one of the tracks is a different version of one of those already presented, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t comment on the sounds.

And, ladies and gentlemen, these few tracks from Rampart are SO Iron Maiden and early Helloween! And not only that, this is, if I’m not mistaken, the first Bulgarian CD I have ever reviewed.

The first notes of the track Warriors immediately lead the thoughts to latter-day Iron Maiden, and the feeling doesn’t go away.

Front woman Maria has a characteristic but not bad voice. I can’t offer you a direct comparison, but the phrasing is more like Kai Hansen’s on the early Helloween material than it is like Dickinson’s, that’s for sure.

What I love about this small sample of Rampart’s music is the energy that is so like the young and hungry Helloween and their obvious talent for putting together a true metal tune. Too bad that there isn’t more of it and, on the more negative side, also too bad that the second and third tracks, Mirror to Dreams and Voice of the Wilderness are not properly produced.

A band to watch, no doubt, with the right backing they could create quite a following.