?Classics? of power metal #10: WUTHERING HEIGHTS - The Shadow Cabinet (2006), upon further review

As complex and unusual as the music gets, I always come back to the vocals.  Here, I mean (although also in general).  Vocals are what make The Shadow Cabinet truly unique.  (I assume Erik Ravn is the main vocal force here, my apologies if I misidentify someone else's goofy voice as his.)  You hear musical theater performances from non-metal people - stage actors, but rockers like Meat Loaf too - elsewhere, and you hear metal guys strain their voices trying to hit notes outside of there range elsewhere.  What you don't get elsewhere is someone with a gritty rock-friendly voice who can clearly sing just go completely nuts, giving his full-throated all into every word like Erik does.  So stagey.  So self-consciously dramatic.  So... unlike what you expect from a metal record. 

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