Cain's Offering - Gather the Faithful

Genre: Power/Heavy Metal
Year: 2009
Country: Finland
Tracklist:

1.	My Queen of Winter	04:15
2.	More Than Friends	05:38
3.	Oceans of Regret	06:21
4.	Gather the Faithful	03:50
5.	Into the Blue	04:25
6.	Dawn of Solace	04:18
7.	Thorn in My Side	04:07
8.	Morpheus in a Masquerade	06:51
9.	Stolen Waters	04:35
10.	Elegantly Broken	02:46
Total playing time		45:06

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he question whether the Finish super group Cain’s Offering is in fact a Frontiers project or a real band is haunting me already for a while and hopefully the answer will be that it’s a real band who’s certainly going to perform live and will make more records. The band, which consists of ex-Sonata Arctica and ex-Altaria guitar player Jani Liimatainen, Stratovarius singer Timo Kotipelto, ex- Sonata Arctica keyboard player Mikko Harkin, Wintersun bass player Jukka Koskinen and Paul Di’Anno Drummer Jani Hurula leaves a very good impression on their debut album ‘Gather The Faithful’, that’s for sure. Main man proves to be guitar player Liimatainen who wrote all of Cain’s Offering’s material and who has also produces the debut album, but you shouldn’t underestimate the importance and added value of the other band members. Especially singer Kotipelto sounds great, a lot better than what he did on the last Stratovarius album.

The band is to be situated in the same genre as the previous bands of Liimatainen and that’s the progressive metal genre. They do this in a great way as proven by both opening tracks of the record, the up-tempo ‘My Queen Of Winter’ and the more mid-tempo ‘More Than Friend’, which are both real good metal songs with flashy guitar work and nice keyboard parts. The following ‘Oceans Of Regret’ has some more progressive influences, while title track ‘Gather The Faithful’ is a very bombastic instrumental, which reminds by sometimes at Nightwish. Also the next five tracks are very enjoyable, with a special mention for the complex, almost seven minutes long ‘Morpheus In A Masquerade’, which will take you quite a number of listens before it’s digestible. The only lowlight of the album is closing song ‘Elegantly Broken’, of which the keyboard intro is identical to the melody of the eighties pop song ‘Tell It To My Heart’ of Taylor Dane. Besides this nothing than praise for this fine debut album!