Rainbow Eyes – 91%
Ritchie Black Iommi, May 14th, 2012
After bringing the genoma for future power metal (or expanding it, actually, as Deep Purple would be the primary ancestor in the bloodline of that cited genre) in the magical and overwhelming Rainbow Rising, Blackmore decided to slow down a little bit while keeping the feeling that turned his band into a major force (specially recognized, in that time, in Europe). That’s why we can find in this record the same early metal touch with a bit of trying-to-sound like everybody. But, hey, Rainbow wasn’t a band like other ones. Here we have Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio and Cozy Powell and dude, that’s a hell of a trio. The rest of the band is expendable. And actually, as far as we know, Blackmore did the bass work and a little bit of the keyboarding so, we are talking about a power trio, with the full letters of the expression in every semantic, metaphoric and literal sense, with a couple of guys filling the chartier.
Anyway, this is not as heavy as Rising, but stands still as an example of early power metal. And besides of it, we can find in here a couple of evergreen heavy metal anthems like “Long Live Rock n Roll” with Ronnie James shattering it with the catchy lines in the piece and “Kill the King”, that unique song, with a resemblance of what has been created by Blackmore’s previous band a couple of years ago and making a confirmation of the lines that would construct modern power metal. Yeah, from the keyboarding solo opening til the frenzy riff and Powell’s insaniac drumming, this song is ahead of it’s time. And then, we found after these brilliancies a couple of very good metal pieces: “The Shed” and “Gates of Babylon”, both similar in many things but with a different approach. The first one has a beyond-earth-as-usual solo by Ritchie, with a ballsy beat by Cozy and singing by Dio. The lyrics are one of the best written ones by Dio. The second has a kinda atmospheric organ intro, picturing us the middle east moods and with Dio’s singing as a top notch, lifts us to the finest examples of power metal in their time, oh yes it is.
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