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Like a marriage of Evanescence's shameless pop hooks and Nightwish's goth metal tendencies, the second album by Visions of Atlantis sounds like it can't decide which band's audience it's aiming for. Unfortunately, the two camps have very little overlap, making it likely that fans of Nightwish's grandiose symphonic metal will be put off by the overbearing pop elements of would-be hits like "Cast Away" and "Lost," and Evanescence fans would find the bombastic symphonic metal of songs like "Realm of Fantasy" and "State of Suspense" irritating. New male singer Mario Plank has a much more pop-oriented voice than his predecessor, Christian Stani, and the increased focus on the male vocals at the expense of lead singer Nicole Bogner's operatic wails both makes the band more accessible and loses a big part of its musical identity. While Cast Away isn't an outright failure, it presents a young band with growing pains that hopefully will either integrate the two sides of its musical personality better in the future or allow one of them to wither away. ~ Stewart Mason
Reissue Of Debut W/3 Bonus Tracks.
Visions of Atlantis: Nicole Bogner, Mario Plank (vocals); Werner Fiedler (guitars); Miro Holly (synthesizer); Mike Koren (bass instrument); Thomas Caser (drums).
Cast Away Music | List Price | $16.98 (You save $3.13) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Heavy Metal | | Label | Napalm | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  73493  | | CD Universe Part number | 6823776 | | Catalog number | 233449 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 22, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Peter O. Moritz | | Engineer | Peter O. Moritz |
Visions Of Atlantis Cast Away Songs Cast Away Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Another undiscovered treasure in symphonic metal
These guys, like many other symphonic metal bands, are weirdly unknown. Their songs are awesome. The only weak songs here are; "State Of Suspense" and "Last Shut Of My Eyes". By weak, I don't mean unbarable, just not in the same level as the other tracks. The two best songs are "Send Me A Light" and the fantastic "Lemuria". I think its ok for people to dislike the band's music, but you cannot possibly dislike those 2 tracks. Anyway, the only thing I dislike about these guys is the pop-sounding male vocals. I mean, Nicole is great on her own, she doesn't need soft male vocals. Besides that, the album is great. They show a very promising future. 4.5/5
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VISIONS OF ATLANTIS IS THE BEST, THEY ROCKˇˇˇˇˇˇ
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