EDENBRIDGE Shangri-La 2CD Digipak 2022

Symphonic metal has a reputation for going big or going home, and Austria's Edenbridge have never once considered going home. Shangri-La is their eleventh full-length, and it lands exactly where you'd expect from a band who've spent two decades layering operatic vocals over walls of orchestration without ever losing the metal underneath.

Sabine Edelsbacher's voice remains one of the genuinely underrated instruments in the genre, and this 2022 record gives her room to work across two discs of the kind of sweeping, cinematic power metal that fans of Nightwish's more ambitious moments will clock immediately. It's not trying to reinvent anything, it's trying to do the thing properly, and it does. The 2CD digipak format means you get the full expanded experience, which with Edenbridge is the only way this music makes sense.

2CD digipak. Full length album. Country of origin: Austria. Genre: Symphonic Power Metal.

Fans of: Nightwish, Stratovarius, Nemesea, Imperia.