Visionatica - Enigma Fire

With “Force Of Luna,“ Visionatica produced an album that tells stories about wolves, visions, lies, myths, and much more. With their popular first single, “She Wolf” and equally powerful songs such as “Certainty Of Benevolence“, the emotional duet “The Thorns” (with Winterstorm singer Michael Liewald), and more, the band had officially announced their arrival.

“Enigma Fire” will prove that Visionatica are not simply resting on their laurels, as they are fully prepared and intent on taking things to the next level. Get ready for bombastic orchestral arrangements paired with stunning fretwork and new musical influences outside of the box, which will take the listener on a sonic journey they'll want to experience over and over.

It has been three months since the release of ‘’Enigma Fire’’, but I wanted to review the album anyway to accompany the lovely interview I got to do with Tim (bass) and Manu (guitar). The album opens very epic with ‘’Amari Sudbina Kali’’, this would be a great live show opener as well. It has some Middle Eastern influences, and I expected this would be carried on in ‘’The Pharaoh’’ because of the name, but that did not happen. ‘’The Pharaoh’’ is a good track, but the vocals sound a bit shallow. ‘’Fear’’ gives me 2014’s Delain vibes, yet Tamara does seem to lack a bit of power behind her voice, and it makes the vocals sound very monotonous throughout the song. In ‘’Roxana, The Great’’ that is a bit less, but still bothers me, because the album could have been so much more powerful. 

Now ‘’Dance Of Fire’’ is one of the best tracks on this album because it showcases a lot of Visionatica, the rough guitar riffs and the choir like-angelic vocals on this track do actually work together really well. The instrumental parts are also very nice. ‘’To The Fallen Roma’’ is on the other side of the spectrum for me, it is the track that I like the least of all. The track simply confuses me, it has a lot of different parts it seems. I like the instrumental parts but that is about it. ‘’Incomplete’’ is just one place above ‘’To The Fallen Roma’’. The lyrics are undoubtedly beautiful, but it has been done before. ‘’Secrets Of The Ancestors’’ belongs to the same category as ‘’Roxana, The Great’’: it’s okay. Closing track ‘’Rise From The Ashes’’ is good but somehow it is also very forgetful. Also it is unclear to me where the male vocals come from, and whose voice it actually is.