P.E.N.
Dance with the Beast (2006)
Demo CD

Reviewed: 3/23/2007

Petri Nakkila (that's what P.E.N. comes from) is self-taught 24-year old guitarist, who released his 3 own songs, which all are instrumental heavy metal. Mr. Nakkila is a good guitarist, not virtuoso but I can't feel any real weak point in his playing (well, I'm not a guitarist, so some "virtuosos" can handle the shit throwing if bloody necessary). Everything but guitar is done with computer, with highly varying result. Some samples and instrument sounds are simply feeble (like too short grand piano sound for example) but thankfully there's really nice ones too. Drums are usual machine stuff; pretty awful, heh. At this point I really suggest Mr. Nakkila to search for musicians or buying drums, as this solution is enough for a demo only. Instrumental metal itself is almost total...

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