Secret Sphere - Mistress Of The Shadowlight (1999) (Japan SCCD-13)
Secret Sphere - Mistress Of The Shadowlight (1999)
Year & Label: 1999, Sun Brain Co., Ltd. Japan | CD#: SCCD-13
Flac (image) | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | Artwork (JPG, 300 dpi) | File-hosts: FilePost
Power/Heavy Metal | FLAC: 400 MB | Artwork: 150 MB | MP3: 130 MB | 5% WinRAR Recovery
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Japanese Edition with bonus track
Year & Label: 1999, Sun Brain Co., Ltd. Japan | CD#: SCCD-13
Flac (image) | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | Artwork (JPG, 300 dpi) | File-hosts: FilePost
Power/Heavy Metal | FLAC: 400 MB | Artwork: 150 MB | MP3: 130 MB | 5% WinRAR Recovery
EAC Secure-rip with LOG+CUE+COVERS | Source: eMule
Japanese Edition with bonus track
Oh, more happy wipi power metal from Italy! But wait. Don't run away in pain and desolation. What we have here is the first release of a quite strange and ignored band. This came out during the rise of Rhapsody and was sucked in the same wave as you can notice when you start to listen. "Mistress of the Shadowlight" isn't precisely one of those records that you will remeber forever. In fact, it fails to acquire the "epicness" required for your usual power metal band but, fear not, it has all that stuff typical of them: speed, nice riffs, catchy (too catchy in my honest opinion) melodies and, OBVIOUSLY, the fantasy lyrics which are a must.Musicians:
The song "Recall of the Valkyrie" would deserve an entire review as it's quite creative, damn catchy, and features the funny fact that they pronounce "Valkyrie" as we pronunce it in spanish or italian ("Valkiria", with the last "i" sounding like the english "e"). Leaving the amusment fact aside, it's a nice tune but the ones that really surpass the rest are "Age of the Wizard", "White Lion" and "Secret Sphere", which features the battle between the hero and the Mistress of the Shadowlight.
Yes, you can run away in pain if you hate power metal driven by speed and fantasy. Now. Well, if there is anyone left, the rest of the cd is quite regular and mediocre, featuring the typical ballad, etc, etc, too generic sometimes to be taken into account. The production and sound is ok, nothing new here. The singer has the usual high pitched vocals that, hpoefully, got perfected in later releases, both in terms of complexity and the english accent.
As a last comment, if you can still find this anywhere it would be a nice purchase as it, somehow, sounds a bit better than Rhapsody (it lacks all the cheesiness of the lame narrations and that fugly bla bla bla you have to tolerate in their late works). Again, while not the best it could be good to give it a try.
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Vocals : Roberto "Ramon" Messina
Guitars : Paolo "Paco" Giantotti
Guitars : Aldo Lonobile
Bass : Andrea Buratto
Drums : Luca Cartasegna
Keyboards : Antonio Agate
Recorded at New Sin Studios (Loria, TV) June-July 1999.
All songs written and produced by Secret Sphere
Track List:
01. Dawn of Time [1:22]
02. Age of Wizard [6:08]
03. Recall of the Valkyrie [5:54]
04. On the Wings of Sun [5:20]
05. Twilight of Fairy Tale [5:15]
06. White Lion [7:51]
07. Labyrinth of Glass [5:34]
08. Seren [2:08]
09. Secret Sphere [10:33]
10. Last Moment of Eternity (Bonus Track) [2:24]
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009
EAC extraction logfile from 20. April 2012, 19:07
Secret Sphere / Mistress Of The Shadowlight
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EAC extraction logfile from 20. April 2012, 19:07
Secret Sphere / Mistress Of The Shadowlight
Used drive : ATAPI iHAS624 B Adapter: 2 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 40 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -6 -V %s
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 1:21.45 | 0 | 6119
2 | 1:21.45 | 6:08.10 | 6120 | 33729
3 | 7:29.55 | 5:54.12 | 33730 | 60291
4 | 13:23.67 | 5:20.05 | 60292 | 84296
5 | 18:43.72 | 5:14.43 | 84297 | 107889
6 | 23:58.40 | 7:50.57 | 107890 | 143196
7 | 31:49.22 | 5:34.00 | 143197 | 168246
8 | 37:23.22 | 2:07.70 | 168247 | 177841
9 | 39:31.17 | 10:33.15 | 177842 | 225331
10 | 50:04.32 | 2:24.33 | 225332 | 236164
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Filename D:\Download\Secret Sphere - Mistress Of The Shadowlight.wav
Peak level 97.5 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 36F32473
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 not present in database
Track 2 not present in database
Track 3 not present in database
Track 4 not present in database
Track 5 not present in database
Track 6 not present in database
Track 7 not present in database
Track 8 not present in database
Track 9 not present in database
Track 10 not present in database
None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database
End of status report
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