Operus is a symphonic metal band originally from Canada with great influences of the style of groups like Kamelot, Nightwish and Symphony X. They have made their way thanks not only to their great musical quality but also to their performance dramatic and full of theatricality that has put them in the public's taste. His debut album “Cenotaph"It was very well received by critics and now the band is in full promotion of their second full-length album"Score of Nightmares"Which has a release date of June 19 of this year through the German label Pride and Joy Music.
“Overture Of Madness"As its name implies, it is the entrance to this material that with"Phantasia”Assaults us with a high symphonic metal and a bewitching sound from the beginning. A titanic opening announces "Lost"With a fast sound and full of horsemen riffs, which then has a very marked counterweight with the melodious sound of "Dance With Fire", a theme that must be admitted breaks the rhythm of the album with a slightly monotonous sound in general, although when they press the pedal a bit it sounds pleasant.
The piano of Echoes it is the instrumental intermediate that gives rise to "Where Falcons Fly", Which immediately resumes that sound of power metal of bands like Hammerfall, with a moment of good symphonic madness in the middle of the song. "Nightmares”It is a more sublimated song that plays in an ingenious way with the rhythms and choruses of medieval battle, which makes it a great theme. "Book of Shadows”It is a much darker theme and evokes in a good way those pieces dedicated to praising the night and its creatures. Then the almost tribal percussions of "The Mirror”They make you think that a theme is coming that will make you shake your skeleton. However, the theme seems to lose itself in a somewhat linear tone and ends up giving much less than what it originally promised. But the path is recomposed with "Run”That from the beginning with a fast-paced battery and a constant but powerful rhythm, he returns to take interest in this great work. The album closes with "La Llorona" an epic and very well elaborated piece of more than seven minutes that serves to attest to the power that Operus has to offer.
