After a debut album full of big, anthemic melodies, hyperdriven Judas Priest/Iron Maiden riffery, and the occasional gothic-sounding keyboard, Italy's Labyrinth offer Timeless Crime, an EP with more of the same cross between British metal, progressive metal, and speed metal.
While a number of bands cut from similar cloth have appeared in the mid- to late '90s (tagged "power metal"), most started out as death-metal outfits and still have residual traces in their sound; that's not really the case with Labyrinth, whose straight-ahead classic metal would sound right out of the '80s if not for the keyboards and faster tempos.
While Timeless Crime doesn't quite beat the full-on rush of Return to Heaven Denied, it is a nice way to tide fans over until the release of the group's next full-length effort.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Save MeOlaf Thörsen | Labyrinth | Play | 05:35 | 12 MB | 36 MB |
| 2 | Out of Memory | Labyrinth | Play | 04:51 | 11 MB | 33 MB |
| 3 | In the Shade | Labyrinth | Play | 04:14 | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| 4 | Falling Rain | Labyrinth | Play | 08:05 | 18 MB | 46 MB |
| 22 mins | 52 MB | |||||
| 22 mins | 146 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Breeze | Bass |
| 2 | Labyrinth | Primary Artist, Producer |
| 3 | Anders Rain | Guitar |
| 4 | Louis Stefanini | Engineer |
| 5 | Olaf Thörsen | Composer, Guitar |
| 6 | Rob Tyrant | Vocals, Vocals (Background) |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |