Artist:Virgin Steele
Album:Visions of Eden
Release Date: September 11, 2006
Label: T&T
Style:Hard Rock & Metal
 
成军近25年的重金属乐队Virgin Steele（维京盔甲合唱团），80年代红极一时，90年代曾经发行了以希腊神话为主题的概念专集：『The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell Parts I & II』，再创辉煌，并从此开辟了一条新古典，交响式的歌剧速弹摇滚的模式！今天推荐的是他们的最新专集，也是他们的第11张专集：『Visions of Eden』。

Virgin Steele has done it. The evolution of the band is now complete. They are a fully symphonic and progressive (in the good sense of the word) melodic metal outfit now, and an absolute beast of a band at that. I had high expectations for this album, and they have exceeded them. Finally, David Defeis has begun to maximize even his enormous potential, writing better, more layered, more textured, more complex songs than ever before. As a vocalist, he has finally toned down the more extreme of his eccentricities, while remaining one of the most versatile and recognizable singers in metal. The guitars are as good as ever, though they now are less of a dominating element in the overall sound. The production is the best of any V. S. album except perhaps the very heavy Invictus, and the rhythm section sounds better than ever, with the addition of a full-time bassist and a digital drum kit.

If anything is capable of bringing this band the greater recognition they so richly deserve, it is this album, which should appeal to any progressive, symphonic, epic, or power metal fan with a pulse, or for that matter to any human being with a soul. Other bands had better be glad that art is not a competition, because if it were Virgin Steele would be winning by a large margin. Five stars is an understatement. This is a classic.

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Track Listings
1. Immortal I Stand (The Birth Of Adam) 
2. Adorned With The Rising Cobra 
3. Ineffable Name 
4. Black Light On Black 
5. Bonedust 
6. Angel Of Death 
7. God Above God 

8. Hidden God 
9. Childslayer 
10. When Dusk Fell 
11. Visions Of Eden

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