ECHOES OF ETERNITY – THE FORGOTTEN GODDESS – NUCLEAR BLAST  
The publicity department for Nuclear Blast takes advantage of the album’s name and the female singer to push the front girl, one Francine Boucher, as a “goddess.” The strategy is wise for, given a general lack of feeling and enthusiasm in the music, pushing the feminine viles of Ms. Boucher is the only thing to do. In fact, the thought that occurs to the reviewer during each listen to The Forgotten Goddess is how the band must have been picked up for the sex appeal angle. Let us be honest.
Oddly enough, Echoes Of Eternity delivers a fairly competent version of US metal with similarities to Iced Earth. The music is without flair and generally workmanlike, but the structure and influences are sound. The snag, if one can call the vocals that given their importance in such a context, is the ‘singing’ of Francine. More akin to spoken word, Boucher’s vocals are in reality an anti-rhythmic series of words without regard to power or feeling. The reason why becomes clear on the rare occasion that the singer attempts to actually sing or raise her pitch. Her vocals are as flat as pita bread and her addition of French lyrics in the title track help matters little. The whole affair is boring beyond measure and a tribute to the power of the subconscious. How else would one explain the prophetic choice of the album’s title? – Ali “The Metallian”