SINGLE REVIEW: Prime Creation - Tears of Rage

PRIME CREATION (Sweden)
"Tears of Rage"
(Silent Wall Productions)
Release date: May 31st 2019
Genre: Melodic heavy metal
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PRIME CREATION is another Swedish constellation of musicians that saw the light of day in early 2015. 3/5 of today's line up were already in the power metal band Mortifade, and formed PRIME CREATION when Morifade saw its end after 23 years of existence. Mathias Kamijo (guitars) is also a founding member of the band, as well as a previous member of Morifade,  but he left the band due to lack of engagement in early 2017, and was quickly replaced by Rami Tainamo.

After Morifade ended, Robin Arnell (lead guitars), the before-mentioned Mathias Kamijo, Henrik Weimedal on bass, and drummer Kim Arnell continued to write music, and a few months into the band's existence they got in touch with singer Esa Englund, and thereby reached the line up that gave us the single that is today's subject for review. They released their eponymous debut album in 2016, before Kamijo left the band, and signed with the Scandinavian label Mighty Music for a world wide release of the album in 2017.

So we write 2019, and PRIME CREATION are ready to release their second album, due for release in September. As tradition usually has it, the fans have been granted a couple teasers in the shape of two singles. "Lost in the Shades" was the first single out, released in April this year, and the title track "Tears of Rage" came out a month later.

PRIME CREATION is without a doubt a band that consists of very talented and experienced instrumentalists, and with the voice of Esa Englund to top it all off, you get a fine recipe for quality metal. This is hard hitting and powerful melodic metal with hints of electronic as well as diverse symphonic elements for more mystical ambiences. Expressionwise I feel I won't be too far off drawing parallells towards Masterplan and Evergrey, which itself should be a strong indication that we're having to do with a high quality effort here.

As stated further up, PRIME CREATION's second album "Tears of Rage" is due for release on September 27th 2019, and if it's anything like these two tracks we have heard from them thus far, it's going to be a great one!

★★★★★★★★★☆

PRIME CREATION:
Esa Englund - Vocals
Robin Arnell - Lead Guitar
Rami Tainamo - Rhythm Guitar
Henrik Weimedal - Bass Guitar
Kim Arnell - Drums