Cosmovision | 
| Artist: Nightmare
Label: Napalm
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 863318
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 4001617268629
ASIN: B00005QE7G
Release Date: December 7, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Roads to Nazca (Intro) | | • | Cosmovision | | • | Corridors of Knowledge | | • | Spirits of the Sunset | | • | Church | | • | Behold the Nighttime | | • | Necropolis | | • | Cemetary Road | | • | Kill for the New Messiah | | • | Spiral of Madness | | • | Last Flight to Sirius | | • | Riddle in the Ocean |
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Album Description
Great power metal from one of the first in the genre! This could be the biggest threat to Helloween & Hammerfall. Their 2001 comeback album after 7 years. Napalm Records.
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| Customer Reviews:
Nightmare Triumphs September 17, 2005
Mr D. (Cave Creek, Az United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sixteen years after the release of their second album, French Power/Heavy Metal band Nightmare, released their third album, Cosmovision, thereby doubling the time it took Boston to complete it's second release.
Well, I'm here to tell you, it was worth the wait. I haven't heard the first two albums, which were released before some of you were born, but it heard they weren't anything special. On Cosmovision, they have made significant changes which have made it a pleasure to listen to.
First, our, now middle aged, musicians turned over the singing to their former drummer, Jo Amore who has turned over the percussion to his younger brother David. Though guitarists Nicolas De Dominicis and Jeannot Strippoli, maintain a mostly galloping Heavy Metal beat, they've added some background vocals by band members and a five member choir and thirdly the songs are very well written(except track 2 & 6 sound alike). I don't know which band member wrote the songs (all songs by Nightmare) but they are excellent and quite melodious and Jo Amore's vocals are just a little different, in a positive way. On some songs he sounds like Ronnie Dio, in fact, if I played track 5, "The Church" for you and told you it was Dio (the Band) I'll bet you'd believe me.
The other songs such as track 2 "Cosmovision" track 7 "Necropolis" and track 12 "Riddle in the Ocean" strongly remind one of Therion but overall the album has a rougher more heavy metal edge, thereby keeping you from confusing the music with Therion or even Dio.
Strangely, the 10th track, "The Spiral of Madness" has a slightly slower, Queensryche feel to it, like something out of Operation Mindcrime.
Killer Tracks
Cosmovision, Spirits of the Sunset, The Church, Behold the Nightime, Necropolis, The Spiral of Madness, Riddle in the Ocean
Conclusion
Cosmovision is a concept album outlining some vague notion that the ancient indians of South America were visited by inter - galactic travelers, an interesting concept previously proposed by German Author Ertich von Daniken in 1968 in his blockbuster book Chariots of the Gods.
I kept vacillating back and forth on whether to rate this a four or a five star album. I the end I opted for a high four star, mostly because tracks 2 and 6 sound so similar.
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