Karma

Karma is an early signature work on which KAMELOT bound grand orchestration and metallic drive at a high level. Roy Khan’s expressive singing deeply supports the narrative of each song, splendidly balancing heaviness and beauty. It also greatly raised the band’s standing commercially, becoming the springboard for firm support centered on Europe. Refining the style established on the previous album, it steps into one ideal form of symphonic power metal. On “Forever,” “The Spell,” “Karma” and “Don’t You Cry,” catchy melody and dramatic arrangement mesh tightly, and on “Wings of Despair,” “Temples of Gold” and “Across the Highlands” too, tense riffs join beautiful melody. And the “Elizabeth” trilogy (“Mirror, Mirror,” “Requiem for the Innocent,” “Fall from Grace”) shows a structural command that builds a long tale of the blood countess Elizabeth Báthory while sustaining tension. Fusing heaviness, lyricism and narrative at a high level, it is a masterpiece emblematic of KAMELOT’s leap forward.