Album Review #158 - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy - Symphony X
Channel: Sound Of Ominous
Date: 2017-12-14

Today i will review the third album by Symphony X: The Divine Wings Of Tragedy (1997)

Requested By: Rockdoo


The track listing:

01. Of Sins And Shadows
02. Sea Of Lies
03. Out Of The Ashes
04. The Accolade
05. Pharaoh
06. The Eyes Of Medusa
07. The Witching Hour
08. The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
    1 - Part I - At The Four Corners Of The Earth
    2 - Part II - In The Room Of Thrones
    3 - Part III - A Gathering Of Angels
    4 - Part IV - The Wrath Divine
    5 - Part V - The Prophet's Cry
    6 - Part VI - Bringer Of The Apocalypse
    7 - Part VII - Paradise Regained
09. Candlelight Fantasia

After Symphony X improved from their lackluster self-titled debut album with The Damnation Game (1995) nobody would've known that they would follow that up with one of the most beautiful sounding Progressive/Power metal sounding albums of all time. What makes The Divine Wings Of Tragedy so great? It blends Progressive metal skilfully when the band shreds and tries their hardest to have as much diversity on the record as possible, blending that with Power Metals sounds like you're going to Progressive Metal heaven, because Power Metal has that feel to it, but can sometimes be a bit too much. Not here though. They blend the two perfectly together here and have made an flawless masterpiece.

The album spawned some classic Symphony X Songs, like

Of Sins And Shadows

Out Of The Ashes

The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

Candlelight Fantasia

and more



My rating for this album is a: 10/10


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