Category: ART OF ILLUSION

With the recent Art Of Illusion debut – the new band of Lars Säfsund (Work Of Art) & Anders Rydholm (Grand Illusion) – many of you asked for more Lars Säfsund material. Under the pseudonym of ‘Lee Hunter’, Säfsund was the lead vocalist of Swedish act ENBOUND, recording two albums, being “And She Says Gold” their debut, in this now out of print Japanese edition including two bonus tracks. Here, ENBOUND combines here melodic metal waves, hard rock groove, muscular AOR hooks, and Säfsund’s stratospheric vocal dynamics.
You see, if it is done right, the melodic metal genre can produce some of the most entertaining and satisfying music anywhere within the rock / metal world. And so is the case with ”And She Said Gold” – the fantastic ENBOUND first CD, a great blend of classic metal, AOR, melodic hard rock and soaring vocals courtesy of Mr. Säfsund that came together to create ‘pure melodic metal gold’.

With the recent Art Of Illusion debut – the new band of Lars Säfsund (Work Of Art) & Anders Rydholm (Grand Illusion) many of you asked for more Lars Säfsund material. Under the pseudonym of ‘Lee Hunter’, Säfsund was the lead vocalist of Swedish act ENBOUND, recording two albums, being “The Blackened Heart” from 2016 the last with the band before concentrating in Work Of Art.
ENBOUND combines melodic metal riffs with hard rock groove plus Säfsund’s stratopheric vocal dynamics, ”The Blackened Heart” resulting into something like Allen / Lande meets Jorn and Khymera.
It’s incredible how versatile vocalist Lars Säfsund is. The man can sing anything, with a huge vocal range and perfect pitch.
With ”The Blackened Heart”, ENBOUND have delivered one of the best melodic metal / hard rock albums of the past decade, and it’s another showcase for Lars Säfsund out-of-this world voice.
The digital download version of this album sounds a bit distorted, this physical CD is the one to get…