Wishing Well are hailing from Helsinki, Finland area and this is their new, fourth album released with help of Inverse Records. The album contains eleven songs of nice and varied classic heavy metal sometimes bordering with power/true metal and sometimes hard/heavy rock. I love the use of Hammond keyboard which makes songs so rich and also a bit retro sounding, but original with sometimes main melody being keyboard themed. I love almost power metal written ‘In The Line Of Fire’ sounding fast, melodic and so powerful. But, as in all Finnish bands, there are lots of great and almost sad, melancholic melodies. Only Suomi bands can create such beautiful melodies like main guitar melody and chorus of more hard rock oriented ‘Soul Rider’. Vocals are very important in bands such as this one, and singer Pepe Tamminen sounds like a perfect mix between Ralf Scheepers and Michael Kiske/Kai Hansen having such powerful and voice that can sing just everything. Songwriting is perfect and whether a ballad like ‘Dancing Across The Stars’ or ‘Flying Finn’ – (is it about Finnish Formula One drivers?) which is more progressive metal oriented have that something making this album great. I can also hear lots of eighties metal and also seventies prog rock influences and that makes this album a little gem in the underground.

8,5/10