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SHADE EMPIRE - SINTHETIC - MAGICK
This is typically terrible Finnish pop rock cloaked in the mantle of distorted guitar and croaked vocals. Aside from the ridiculous band name which might be due to an erroneous understanding of the meanings for the words 'shade' and 'shadow' (I am the emperor of cool shades!?), the Classical and dance influences drench any and all credibility out of the band's debut full-length. This is sinful in its surrender to weak trends and synthetic if labeled metal. One can see how fans of Cradle Of Bodom might cozy up to this stuff, but which metal fan would want to suffer this? Shade Empire is the musical answer to the stink bomb. - Ali "The Metallian"
SHADE EMPIRE – INTOXICATE O.S. – DYNAMIC ARTS 
The only ‘intoxication’ going on here is someone somewhere believing with a straight face that this Shade Empire is a heavy metal band. Oh sure, one will read online reviewers accord this their usual 8/10 or whatever, but those reviewers are eight-years-old mentally. The bigger commercial rags rely on brownnosing for advertisements and will do their duty so never mind them either. Shade Empire is as Mickey Mouse as Cradle Of Filth, as predictably weak as Graveworm and as stupid, lost as Zyklon and as wimpy as a country that bombs a poor nation from the air and calls it a war. Pop, electronic, goth, Disney, joke, weak maybe. Heavy, metal, electric or significant no way. – Ali “The Metallian”
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