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| | Metal Reviews - Metal Coven Webzine - Metal Reviews - VII Gates - Fire, Walk with Me |
 | | But despite all these similarities, comparisons, and so forth, "Fire, Walk with Me" manages to be engaging and unique enough to stand above the majority of power metal bands out there and be worthy of attention outside of the masses. |
 | | If ex-Judas Priest vocalist Tim Owens were to sing an entire album in the style of Blind Guardian's Hansi Kürsch, he would sound something like Criss Blackburn on "Fire, Walk with Me." Or at the very least, a mad geneticist somewhere has combined DNA from the aforementioned two greats to create this budding talent. |
 | | Without a doubt, VII Gates has an opportunity to get better, get tighter, and refine their sound in subsequent albums
as is it, "Fire, Walk with Me" is yet another small chip in my attitude that most contemporary power metal is boring and derivative. |
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