Crystal Eyes
Crystal Eyes is a power metal band from Sweden that was founded in 1992 by Mikael Dahl and Niclas Karlsson.
History
Crystal Eyes was founded in 1992 to carry on the legacy of Heavy Metal in the eighties by bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath or Accept.
The band released the mid-nineties four official demo tapes. In 1996 the official homepage. In the same year, the band also played as the opening act for Blind Guardian.
1999 was released with World of Black and Silver, the debut album on the German label CLM, as well as the follow-up album In Silence They March, which was released in 2000.
The third studio album Vengeance Descending was recorded in the band's own studio and released under the new Swedish label Heavy Fidelity 2003. On the album the singer Chroming Rose Gerd Salewski and the Lost Horizon vocalist Daniel Heiman are also represented as a guest singer. The good reviews brought the band a an appearance at the Sweden Rock Festival in 2003.
Daniel Heimann took over for their fourth album, Confessions of the Maker, which was released in early 2005, the Part as a new singer, and thus replaces Mikael Dahl from, who took over the vocals until then. Since Daniel Heimann, however a short time later left the band, they were looking for a new singer resistant. The Dane Nico Adamsen was finally unveiled as the new singer. With a new singer now the fifth studio album Dead City Dreaming was released in late 2006. The mix was here for the first time carried out by Fredrik Nordström at Studio Fredman.
In 2007 the band signed with the German label Metal Heaven under which the album Chained was published on 21 November 2008. For the mix was again Fredrik Nordström responsible.
Style
The songs are based not only on the models of the 1980s metal generation. Guitarist Mikael Dahl are so well- melodic metal bands such as Helloween and Gamma Ray, and melodic hard rock bands like the Scorpions, Europe, Def Leppard and Bon Jovi as an influence on.
The songs feature largely by their clean played guitar solos, as well as by their very catchy lyrics and melodies. So is the latest album Chained by German label Nuclear Blast in the winter catalog " Blast! " referred to as " extremely catchy melodic metal with rich guitar riffs ."