Seven Waters – Hunter’s Prey

[schema type=”review” name=”Seven Waters – Hunter’s Prey” author=”Sabine van Gameren” pubdate=”2015-06-25″ ]In 2010 the band Seven Waters got formed. They have a Dutch background and make Symfonic Metal. The band released their second EP in 2015, it’s called: “Hunter’s Prey”.

Starting with the title track you are quickly getting an image of what the band presents. Symfonic rock with a progressive background. It would be too easy to immediately put them in the same corner as the typical female fronted band as they clearly like to have this technical ideas weaved into their sound. These work out quite well and set you right into the right atmosphere. Then we must admit that the vocals are not always come out best with the song. Two reasons, vocalist Karen could try to highlight her strongest vocal parts a bit more, give more power and then the band could give her more time and space to shine with that.
Here and there they reminded me a bit to the Finnish act Soulgrind and specifically to their song “Through the Gates of Desperation” in which their vocaliste Tanya takes a direction vocally that would suit very well with Seven Waters.
The four songs on this release show you that the band is having a clear idea of what they want to bring but they are still looking how to give shape to this idea. They are well on their way and when all comes together we are happy to hear a full length from them.

Line up:
Karen Leijzer – vocals
Michiel Leijzer – guitars
Robert Molenaar – drums
Maarten Vloon – keys
Henk Kamermans – bass

Tracklist: 01. Hunter’s Prey 02. Weight of Loss 03. Mother Egypt: All For Love 04. Broken Images

Links:
Seven Waters Facebook