Music Spotlight: Kalidia

Kalidia are an Italian band first formed in 2010. On their webpage, they describe themselves as melodic power metal. The songs on their first album are rather similar-sounding, but they still sound nice and there's a distinct upgrade for their second album. I like the vocalist's voice and the instrumentation is appropriately power metal. Of their albums, I own the second (The Frozen Throne) and the rerelease of the first one (Lies' Device).

https://kalidia.bandcamp.com/album/dance-of-the-four-winds-2016-edition (demo EP)
https://kalidia.bandcamp.com/album/lies-device
https://innerwound.bandcamp.com/album/lies-device-new-version-2021 (rerelease)
https://innerwound.bandcamp.com/album/the-frozen-throne

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All the angels are falling from the sky
Cold and silent comes the night
And the reign of ice and fear
Has just begun
Lost in a world of agony
The fallen one became our king
Frozen throne
Our destiny and our hope forever gone

(This is technically a Warcraft filk! Other bangers from the album: Circe's Spell, Black Sails, To the Darkness I Belong, Myth of Masada, Go Beyond.)

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Just be the man they want
But remember who you are...
Until there's nothing left to say
Face this emptiness with faith
Lies device

(Other bangers from the album: Dollhouse, Reign of Kalidia, Black Magic, Winged Lords)