...Let’s just say that I didn’t need to know Russian to enjoy the pleasures that this band has to offer. Even with the tight correspondence to IRON MAIDEN, it is hard not to be excited from this band’s music. If one thinks that these guys have been imitators for nearly thirty years, he or she is dead wrong.
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“Phoenix” conjures under its wings all the principles of NWOBHM variety that have never lost their prosperous qualities. What I mostly liked about this album, and throughout almost every album in ARIA’s vast career, is their strong sense towards twin guitar harmonies and melodies in general, incredible overriding bass work, vintage but energetic oriented beats and highly artistic vocals that sometimes are merely melodic storytelling and preaching. Nearly the entire sum of ten tracks of “Phoenix” froze me in my seat with their glorious features, yet I would like to focus on four tracks that were the source of my admiration...