As a female-fronted Metal-Combo from Finland one inevitably has to face being compared with Nightwish (whether that’s good or not). And with their current album Eras-Reveries even TACERE can’t escape that.
In fact, the five-piece from Vantaa comes along like a „light“-version of Miss Turunen’s former band. Technically correct, but in my opinion much too hectic guitar-stuff and even similar to Tarja, Helena Haaparanta prefers singing in the soprano-level. Fortunately, TACERE don’t use as much orchestral-samples, in order to get a chance to step out of that mighty shadow.
But nevertheless, after being played five times nothing changes my impression, that this CD is getting on my harmony-spoiled ears and nerves due to this „too much“ of arpeggi, screaming guitars, double-bass-thunder and dramatic waste of chords.
Real inventions are hard to realize, but on Eras-Reveries the band sets its focus a bit too much on both scholastic and narcistic distinctions. Somewhere between Dream Theater and Nightwish, there might be an audience, but I’m afraid, I’m not among that.