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POWERCAGE - Updated late dec 03 New tracks to download.... 27th of december You can download a lot of the new Powercagestuff by clicking the image further down the page; check out Legacy of Silence...Keeper of dreams....yeah! And even though we haven't been too active lately, we have at least started practicing and made som new stuff....can't be all bad, ey? 17th april |
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| POWERCAGE - The new wave?
We all grew up in the glorious eighties (musicwise) and this of course reflects in the songs. But as the seventies hardrock scene also range pretty high in our lives, it`s natural to include this as well into our music. We feel that we have taken the best from what we love and created a sound of our own. Thin Lizzy, Priest, Tnt (Nor), Purple, n.w.o.b.h.m., old german metal as well as lots of new bands are all stuff that has formed us as a band and we feel that we have some very strong songs to offer. This sideproject came to life when me and my friend in metal, Vegard the librerian, decided to start a diehard heavy band which was based on just having fun. We still, after quite a long time, enjoyes going to rehersal and we rock as hard now as we did in the beginning. After several months (make that close to years) we were joined by a friend of mine named Einar Skeie. He was and is a great metal screamer and when we got him in the band he had in fact stopped singing for good. He sang in a Malmsteen sounding band named Odyssey ten years ago and hasn`t done anything of signifance until now. |
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| REVIEWS ADDED!!!!
Powercage - Bringer Of Hope (by Gerrit P. Mutz of Sacred Steel) "This sounds definately like end eighties US-Metal! I'd never expected that this band is from Norway. It sounds a little bit like Mystic Force but not that complicated. Really a good singer. Its not a song that makes me move through my living room but they have my respect (like Emerald before) and it would be very sad if this kind of Metal dies. The end of the song kicks really ass - I have to remember this band!" From the underground One of the vigorous fighters for the Metal underground is definitely the Norwegian guy Yngve Jacobsen who now has (besides his first band Tonka -cool stuff that sounds a bit like Coroner) a band called Powercage. The Opener "Darkness Falls" reminds me of a time, when a genius called Uli Jon Roth was one of the Scorpions. The second song "Cries of the Damned" also takes you on a journey through time und sounds as the next track "Bringer of Hope" like a Priest song that could have been on the "British Steel" album of the Metal Gods. Powercage is a band that knows where the real roots of Heavy Rock and Metal are and they know that Helloween are not the "egg of Columbus" like thousands of other band think! (Hansy) Hard Beyond Driven This 3 song EP is one of two bands presented by deadly drummer Yngve Jacobsen (Tonka being the other). Black Sabbath/ Mercyfull Fate and Iron Maiden are big influences upon first listen. Power Metal can be called the bands overall sound with Maiden like solo's. Check out the sounds of "Cries of the Damned" and see what I mean. Powercage hands out riffs of real Heavy Metal going back to the late 70's early 80's NWOBHM. No wonder they named it Powercage, you get what you ask for, and Yngve and Powercage deliver real Metal no questions asked. Metal Observer This is the 80s! POWERCAGE maybe sounds like Power Metal, but it isn't Power Metal, in my opinion, it sounds like the classical Heavy Metal combined with Hard Rock of the early 80s, including the slightly flat production (I don't mean that negative but the production has got less hall, like it was normally that time). The opener "Darkness Falls" reminds me in his vocallines and his partly dragging rhythm of the genious Swedish Doomers of SORCERER, but concurrent, it sounds a little bit archaic but also fresh, because you don't listen every day to something like that. "Cries Of The Damned" is up-tempo and reminds me of the traditionally Metal bands of the early 80s, while I only can't befriend with "Bringer Of Hope", with (and due to) its dissonances in the riffs and in some vocals. Surely, the debut of the three Norwegians isn't epochal, but it makes fun! (Online September 18, 2002) Quintessence Norway is really putting out the Metal bands these past 3 years or so and seems that age of relentless Black Metal is dying off but still exists. The last bands I remember reviewing were Sea Of Dreams and Godsize which impressed me to no end and Powercage is very impressive as well fusing traditional 80's, NWOBHM and German Metal to some actual 70's influences and all that can be heard on just 3 songs represented here until their release comes out. Vocals are of a high range but not annoying and it's hard to tell when you have a demo in the first place before the actual finished product. Just a band that's easy to get into and 3 songs is just not enough to base a big opinion on but from what is here, the full-length should be quite a treat. Temple of Metal By the CDÃ?¢ââ??‰â??¢s cover and the title of their album I thought they where playing some sort of power / progressive music with keyboards and stuff. I was wrong. The guys are playing this old-fashioned heavy power metal with elements of Judas Priest and some other old and very cool bands! This three track killer CD contains more feeling than most of the power metal scene nowadays, especially the opening tune "Darkness fall" has a smooth guitar solo that took me many years back in time. The production is typical for this old fashioned music and frankly I havenÃ?¢ââ??‰â??¢t heard such sound on the guitars for a very long time. The vocal lines I guess could be better but their singer has what it takes with his classic voice. Now add to the above the very good, yet deceptive, front cover and you have a very good EP that all of you, classic heavy metal maniacs will like till death. As for me IÃ?¢ââ??‰â??¢m just waiting their new CD. Tartarean Desire (demo) Self-financed, 2001 7/10 Yngve M. Jacobsen, the drummer of the Norwegian thrash metal band Tonka, is the man behind the band Powercage and together with Einar Skeie on vocals and Vegard Lima on guitars he has set out to make his own music come alive. While Tonka is influenced by the thrash metal of the 80's Powercage is more hard rock oriented with influences from classic legends like Deep Purple, Rainbow and Thin Lizzy. These influences are very evident when listening to this self-financed EP, especially the first track. The second and third tracks actually soundslike a mix of classic hard rock and modern power metal with very nice choruses. What brings this album down is the production since it was actually recorded on a farm somewhere in Norway. Because of this the vocals go off on a few places and the overall sound is a little too thin to be satisfied with. With the proper support and production I think Powercage could create everything they ever wanted and any label leaving these guys unsigned is making a mistake. |
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