A great mix of tempo changes that smell like good old school heavy metal; Slavon manages to mix all of their influences and add a little something extra to the mix, creating a fun album that will surprise you on every song. Like I mention before, every song has a distinctive “smell” to it, some remind us of Black Sabbath, others sound like Helloween and there some hard rock ballads like Empty Words that really show you the heart and soul of this band.

The guitars are quite good, the solos display great talent and their intervention has great timing; the drums are quite nice as well, nothing too impressive but they really get the job done.

What makes this album a good purchase is the fact that every song is different; every one of them has a different approach and style, a fact that keeps you listening from beginning to end.

The album begins with an intro of some horses entering something like the Roman coliseum, a very epic intro I may add. When Roman begins, you will know what I’m talking about; the familiar tunes will make you immediately remember some great heavy metal bands of your childhood. Empty Words is like I said a hard rock ballad with some nice riffs and quite and interesting structure. Excalibur is one of the best tracks on Just A Dream, fast, catchy and memorable, this one sounds very Helloween, the drums play a very big role, riding hard along side a great guitar; the vocals are nice, melodic and strong. The title song Just a Dream has some nice keyboards, and very heavy guitars, there are some faded back vocals that increase the deep of the song; the solos are great and display all the talent inside Slavon.

Red River is another great song, this one with some “Arab” smell to it, very nice song structure and catchy as hell.

East of Israel couldn’t sound more Judas Priest even if the Brits themselves play this song; the stop and go riffs are there, and the double bass drums too…welcome to what Judas would sound if they were Costarrican.

Every song is catchy and memorable, really a very solid album; all the instruments are played nicely and the song writing is something this guys took very seriously; sadly and like many other underground Costarrican bands the production is not very good and the mix is terrible, again the vocals are placed on top of everything else hiding some great guitars, and a very powerful drum work; if Slavon could re-record this album in a better studio, with a better producer and work a little more in the mixing, this album could be more than good.