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Two Tragic Poets Limited Edition Cd is a 2008 release by Italy's Elvenking. It is a mixture of power metal and pop-metal, with a strong folk influence. The album includes a cover of Heaven Is a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle, which is given a Bon Jovi-influenced makeover.
Italy's Elvenking haven't been afraid to try different things on
different albums. Their 2006 release Winter's Wake is best
described as power metal/progressive metal with a strong folk
influence, but their 2008 recording Two Tragic Poets and a Caravan
of Weird Figures offers an unlikely mixture of folk metal and
pop-metal. The interesting thing is that this CD finds Elvenking
using more acoustic instruments on the one hand, but being more
pop-minded on the other hand. How pop-minded? The album even
includes a cover of Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is a Place on
Earth, which receives a very Bon Jovi-influenced makeover -- and
the tune works enjoyably well as pop-metal. Bon Jovi is not only an
influence on the Carlisle cover, but on much of the original
material as well. Of course, one rarely hears the name Bon Jovi
used in connection with a folk metal disc, but darned if Two Tragic
Poets and a Caravan of Weird Figures doesn't manage to be
influenced by Bon Jovi and folk metal at the same time. It's an
intriguing combination, although some of the headbangers who
enjoyed Winter's Wake will no doubt lament the fact that Two Tragic
Poets and a Caravan of Weird Figures doesn't rock as hard. When
Elvenking increased both the acoustic factor and the pop factor,
they decreased the power metal factor; that doesn't mean that this
isn't a worthwhile album, but it's definitely a less aggressive and
less metallic album than Winter's Wake. Nonetheless, Two Tragic
Poets and a Caravan of Weird Figures is an agreeable listen if one
doesn't consider himself/herself a metal purist. ~ Alex Henderson
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