Have you ever heard a band that could be scary and beautiful at the same time, I said a band not your wife or girlfriend; well I think that would be a good way to describe this two Frenchmen, they can be scary and they can create the most beautiful and sonorous world around you thanks to all the violins, piano, female vocals and atmospheric sounds.

The Eternal Blade is an up to now underground project by two friends who love metal and classical music, they decided to put all of their influences together to launch this refreshing piece of metal, why refreshing?, well because I assure you that maybe you can compare them, but you will never be able to figure them out.

As I said before the band can be scary, and the black metal vocals provided by Cyril throughout the whole record may confirm that, a squeal a little more refined and powerful from what you can find in bands such as Cradle of Filth. Nice almost progressive guitar lines placed in different segments of the album, as well as a keyboard that accompanies some songs creating a very epic atmosphere, and don’t even get me started on the female vocals, that lady can really sing, she’s awesome a very classic opera voice embellishes every song in which she is involved, I would have use her even more.

This album may sound complex for the humongous amount of instruments, or elements that it contains, but in some way this guys manage to place everything in an order that it is not going to fall apart when you listen to it, is not even going to be hard to appreciate, the piano, the violins, the organ, the opera vocals, the black vocals, the clean deep male vocals, shit this album has pretty much every single thing that bands such as Haggard use and it takes them like 100 guys to pull it off.

How can we best describe the record? Is a trip into a marvelous and dark world, a musical journey into the heart of man, some may think that I’m overreacting but it’s true, if you don’t believe me just listen to the album an close your eyes while you do it, then and only then you will understand.

Before this record I though the organ was one boring phantom of the opera prop, now the organ is cool as hell.

Ok and here is the reason why this album is not a 10, simple and easy to fix really (well easy if you have the money) they need a real drummer, a drummer such as Frost or maybe even someone like Pete Sandoval, hell with a drummer like that this band would rule the universe, ok enough, the sound is not very good, and that’s just because they needed a better bigger studio to record this album, with that said I would have really liked to hear some more death metal growls on the record (yes they even have them in here).

To rap it up, get this treasure of the underground!