METALIUM – As One – Chapter Four     Label: Armageddon Products Release: February 23 2004 By: Hoschi Points: 6,5 Time: 59:58 Style: Power Metal URL: Metalium   After a short break METALIUM is back with a new CD and new label to show. With these things in their back the are able to sound on As One – Chapter Four as if they wouldn’t have had a break at all. The trademarks of the band is unchanged and clearly the voice of singer Henning Basse. Together with the slightly pathetic songs a la German Heavy Metal this gives together METALIUM. You realise on the fourth CD that the songs are little bit more grown up, but the special momentum is still missing, to step out of the shadow of the own back program. As One – Chapter Four does sound just like METALIUM has to sound, but it is not enough to convince on a broader scale. The German band does include itself in a long row of other bands who are releasing very good records and who are technically very good, but who are not able to release a Premium first class CD which gives you goose bumps over all. Surely does As One – Chapter Four have some cool songs, like the speedy Screaming In The Darkness or the midtempo song Illuminated (Opus One), but these are more like elements as a whole thing. But it has to be said, that every friend of German Power Metal and of older METALIUM stuff will surely like the new CD, because one gets what one expect. Nothing more and nothing less. But everyone who has heard enough of this and similar sound after Hammerfall will surely not be convinced by the opposite.