And so with Dawn of Aquarius we come to the second and final “freebie” from a record label.  I started getting back into power metal around 2016 with a handful of modern, aggressive bands like Judicator, Innerwish and Arrayan Path, whose fourth album IV: Stigmata I featured in an article of power metal album to ease someone into the genre.  When it came time to review their (at the time) latest album I was really taken with how strong the writing was, let alone the technicality and execution.  A few weeks after the review came out the label contacted me and sent it a copy of the album on CD as thanks. Continue reading “Arrayan Path: Dawn of Aquarius (2017)”