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Album Review: Dream Evil - Six

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"There's tasty fretwork throughout, but too much uninspired retreading of familiar ground."

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Recalling the focus group enlisted to help tracklist Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, Dream Evil allegedly recruited a heavy metal jury of devotees to select which songs made Six's final cut.

Swedish production mastermind/guitarist Fredrik Nordstrom and cohorts perhaps should've trusted their own disposition following a lengthy layoff. Power metal anthems like fist-pumping Dream Evil, Sin City and Creature Of The Night front-load Six, packing choruses custom built for European summer festivals. There's tasty fretwork throughout, but too much uninspired retreading of familiar ground, and even outright filler, lets the side down. Solid enough Priest worship overall, but not a patch on 2004's The Book Of Heavy Metal.