This album is not exclusively oriented towards the, referred to as, female fronted metal fans since it has a lot more to offer that a simple orientation. The fact that there is a front-woman, singing arias in a band that sounds symphonic ending up as another branch of the Metal genre was not expected, even more when it is the main commercial value in the said market. And to be specific, anyone can choose on their individual taste. The main issue is whether the band from the Americas has what it takes.

Chile, guitars, “symphonicity”, female, urban: key words that roughly give an image of how the “Behind The Sorrow” sounds, being the fourth album by the Santiago based band. Even if their prior works could be listed within the broader spectrum  of modern Power/Prog Metal (when you cooperate with Italian Underground Symphony, you have to set some standards), with “Behind The Sorrow”, the quintet flirt with the symphonic sound more than ever but also with some of the expressions of the metropolitan prog metal sound. Sound? Well, yes but with a compositional flare too. They may not spend themselves in interweaving changes and unstoppable blubbering, but the Six Magics create an ambience of progressiveness coinciding with an up-to-date philosophy in production and the merging of guitars and keyboards through a sweet big-city melancholy. No need to say that their exotic breeding makes them sound somehow different from the majority of similar, cliché, bands. “A mixture of simplified Dream Theater, mature Evanesence, commercial Therion and -in its extremity- feminine Megadeth”? How does this sound as a label to the whole Six Magics style?

Using David Prater, the same producer who did “Images and Words” and “A Change Of Seasons”, the Six Magics also boast a good total of songs approximating perfection, while rookie Elyzabrth’s voice, not similar to the American/Scandinavian semi-sopranos, floats innocent, though mature, with a naivety you will adore. So yes, “Behind the Sorrow” and the Six Magics offer something quite different. You should look into them, I think. Can a woman deliver spring after all?