Artist: Skeletoon
Title: They Never Say Die
Label: Scarlet Records
Cat #: SC351-0
Release Year: 2019
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digipak

SKELETOON write albums about – you’ve guessed it – about skeletons, their third album “They Never Say Die” has cute “Pirates of the Caribbean” meets Tim Burton sort of pirate theme. The music is firmly rooted in the Euro-Power Metal sound of bands like STRATOVARIUS, EDGUY or SONATA ARCTICA, but also has a bit of a Hard Rock edge to it in the vein of AVANTASIA. The band is quite open about their inspiration by AVANTASIA actually, the album even has a cover of “Farewell” on it. Many of the songs have catchy, high-octane choruses that are on the sugary side of the Power Metal spectrum – the choruses of the opener “Hell-O” or the third song with the absolutely metal name “The Truffle Shuffle Army: Bizardly Bizarre”, for example, are made of the same cheesy ingredients used in FREEDOM CALL’s kitchen.

Recommended if you like: Stratovarius, Alestorm, Hammerfall, Angra, Edguy, Avantasia, Kamelot, Firewind, Helloween, Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray, Edguy, Sonata Arctica

Track Listing:
1. Intro / Hell-O
2. Hoist Our Colors
3. The Truffle Shuffle Army: Bizardly Bizarre
4. To Leave A Land
5. They Never Say Die
6. Last Chance
7. I Have The Key
8. The Chain Master
9. When Legends Turn Real
10. Farewell
11. Goonies R Good Enough

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