Yeah, this album was made strictly by the textbook. So many power metal cliches and standards it's frightening. The cover art probably doesn't even need mentioning — you've already guessed what's on it. Ha-ha, I can see your smirks. Dragons, naturally. The music is the most standard power metal at mid and fast tempos with Stratovarius-style keyboards.
But I won't deny there are things I enjoyed. The superb epic "Another Sun" — "Fly away, fly away..." — brilliant, honestly! The closing and title track "Metallic Tragedy" is also very interesting. Over thirteen minutes long, a thrash-tinged first half gives way to a slow, melodic keyboard passage, followed by power metal in the spirit of the album's main body, interspersed with progressive metal passages. You'll even hear blast beats here, against which some fellow half-whispers a scream.
Well, I've nearly given away the most interesting feature of this track — the considerable number of vocalists: female clean, female operatic, male clean, baritone, growl, scream. They appear both separately and in chorus. Interesting. But not enough to make the entire album distinctive and original. Dragons, dragons...