Excalion is a young Finnish band playing Melodic / Power Metal.
Their first album Primal Exhale was just some demos and such re-recorded but the second album Waterlines was pure metal masterpiece. They left out the power metal cliches and developed more their own sound.
In result the songs were a lot better.
They all (exept the guitarist) come from Konnevesi (even a smaller place than Lappajärvi where Kotipelto comes from)
Unfortunately for the fans the first album is no longer avaivable because of the label that released it, Sound Riot Records.
They removed their sites and contacts and stopped publishing records. They just vanished.
Now they are propably somewhere warm enjoying an early retirement.
Waterlines however was released through Limb music so it is still avaivable and easy to locate.
The band issued an update a short time ago that they will soon reveal their new label and tell more about the next album that was composed last year.
The guitarrist tells in his myspace blog that the album is ready and they will enter studio anytime soon.
I Have been listening to Waterlines a lot lately and I have to say that it is my favourite album of all times and Excalion is my definate favourite band along with Strato.
the Whole Waterlines album is avaivable on youtube by a certain user. You can find all the songs by searching with the name of the song. Just Excalion won't find the songs.
My favourite songs are Soaking Ground, Losing time and the Wingman.
But really any song they have made is good.
The early stuff from the first album is good too if you find some of it somewhere but it just takes more time to grow.
At the moment I have a feeling that this topic won't get much response but this band really would deserve a lot more attention than it gets.
I hope things will go better in the future.
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