Rata Blanca - " El camino del fuego "
Genre : Neoclassical Heavy Metal
Rata Records 2002

This last Rata Blanca album doesn't make us ride over the enchanted forrest like in "Magos, Espadas y Rosas" it is no longer the warrior remembering the times when he lost his loved one, this time they show us another style. In "El camino de Fuego" the band runs as fast as they can. With a great amount of hard rocking riffs, simple but effective, acomplish their task of catartic 70's hard rock. All of this along every song in the album except in tracks 7, 9 y 10 where we can hear the trademark Rata Blanca sound, and in track 8 the classic metal ballad but this time with blues influences. This album doesn't represent a significative change in Rata Blanca style, just more of those provocative heavy metal tunes they have us used to. But this album comes in the right time when power metal is as saturated as it is. Inclusive Walter Giardino leave his beloved harmonic minor scales to perform some more rocking pentatonic solos, just like their beloved Deep Purple (Ritchie Blackmore to be more specific).

Score:8/10

Review by Martirio