As soon as the listener presses that play button, the listener is transported to the heavy metal world of Tales Of Mike, and his new single Human Masquerade.
Human Masquerade welcomes the listener with the sound of an audience as if you are witnessing Tales of Mike, performing live, and transporting the listener on a lyrical journey about: “Unfortunately, not everything was positive while I was working on the Tribute EP. Some people changed because I was suddenly making music. People who also knew my brother. That disappointed me at first. Then I felt sorry for them because envy destroys many people. Many people don’t like it when others are happy. I see again and again that there are people who are happy when somebody makes mistakes or is unhappy” [Mike]
Human Masquerade, offers the listener something different, than Michael’s debut EP, Landscape Of Sorrow. “An EP that is dedicated to Mike’s brother, who was lost to cancer in 2010 but never forgotten”. Landscape Of Sorrow had different elements within the musical spectrum, such as heavy metal and doom metal, that touched the framework of darkwave, each of the four tracks was different in sound, composition etc.
As the song progresses, the listener will encounter this fruit of art musical performance of heavy, powerful, energetic, and epic sensation running through the music and their soul. But also going for this (more of) heavy/power metal vibe of Helloween, Hammerfall and the theatrical atmosphere of Mercyful Fate/King Diamond.
However, one thing that continues from Landscape of Sorrow is the fruit of art devilmanship, which provides the listener with this burning soul sensation of powerful vocals provided by Gonzalo Civita. He hammers out these heavy and power metal anthem vocals, topped off with Rob Halford/King Diamond screams. At the same time, Michael drives and energizes the song with pulsing progressive riffs, while Henrik Schaller‘s powerful soaring solo adds an epic-depth charge to the song’s structure.
The production of the single is solid, crisp, and clear as hell – topped off with a song, instrumental, music and devilmanship composition at the same level as Landscape Of Sorrow.
If you love powerful, epic, heavy music, then Tales of Mike is for you. Simultaneously, if you found Landscape Of Sorrow entertaining and enjoyable, you will enjoy Human Masquerade.
The single comes to an end. We would like to give a shout-out to Tales of Mike for allowing us to review his single, Human Masquerade. Now, we are going to conclude the review by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
