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TRICK OF TREAT “Ghosted”
TRICK OF TREAT “Ghosted”
By Dark Starr
If you like metal bands like HELLOWEEN, you are probably likely to enjoy this. I think it’s a smoking hot album that has plenty of technical angles along with power metal and more. I really dig the tracks that are more horror related, but everything here is cool. The one pirate metal leaning tune gets a little silly for a moment or two, but this whole thing works well.
“Lost In The Haunted House” opens the album, and symphonic elements are at play. The track is trippy stuff with a great spooky vibe. It serves as a cool mood setting introduction. “Craven Road” drives out with furious metal jamming. It has technical and power epic metal vibes. It is a real powerhouse. There is some fierce guitar soloing built into “Bloodmoon.” It’s another furious metal stomper. There is a female vocal section added to the mix on it. The tune also turns a little more extreme later.
The title track has some particularly meaty riffing. It isn’t a big change, but when it’s this good, who cares? A more symphonic, epic introduction brings us in on “Dance With The Dancing Clown.” That introduction runs through. From there we’re taken to more driving metal jamming. It is fast paced and has some really catchy hooks. Yet, it also has plenty of metal meat on its bones. It is dynamic and rather epic in scope with some great changes and anthemic choruses.
“Polybius”is so epic. It gets almost proggy in some of the shifts and changes. Yet, it’s still decidedly metal. It is a powerhouse that has anthemic choruses and so much meaty metal on its bones. “Evil Dead Never Sleeps” and driving powerhouse metal is on the menu. The track gets really epic and features some symphonic instrumentation later. It’s screaming hot and packed full of twists and turns.
There are some Celtic stylings at play on “Return To Monkey Island.” The number has plenty of killer metal at its heart, too. It is a pirate metal song. It drops back to some strange, playful island stuff later. We get some smoking hot guitar soloing as it continues to build back out from there. More powerhouse epic metal is on the menu on “Make A Difference.” It has some seriously driving, furious stuff built into it.
“The 13th" comes in with a mellow, keyboard-oriented instrumental section. It fires out to fierce, driving metal from there. It gets some technical and epic angles added to the mix as it continues. “Bitter Dreams” comes in mellower and more balladic. It builds out gradually from there. It eventually turns to more rocking metallic zones as it continues. The piece is pretty epic, working outward with a lot of style and then eventually dropping back down to some kids chanting, like out of “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
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