Great Master are hailing from Italy, and have been active since 1993 but I must admit I have never heard of them until this album. This is band’s sixth album and it is a concept album about story written by Alexandre Dumas, ‘Count of Montecristo’ and the music is epic and nice, ultra melodic power metal with some symphonic and prog metal touches thrown in for good measure. Atmosphere is different on this album’s 13 songs depending the part of the story where we are currently and what part of the story are we listening. Keyboards and flute only add to already great songwriting thus creating epic verse melodies, choruses full of harmony and some songs just made for pumping your fist in the air and singing along to at gigs, which I am sure are fantastic judging by listening to this album where every detail of the album fits just perfectly into its place with superb vocals, backing vocal harmonies which are important for music such as this. If you are not familiar with the story, go check out this classic novel, it would be my recommendation for you. If I must choose some songs as a highlight for this album it would be ‘Where The Shame Lives’, ‘My Name’ and ‘Final Revenge’. If you love your power metal ultra melodic, concept based and above all with great songwriting check out this album.

7,5/10 axes