6 Days to Nowhere

The second album by Italian power metal act Labyrinth since an intra-band schism led to the departure of leader and primary singer Olaf Thorsen, 6 Days To Nowhere continues the near-total stylistic shift begun with its predecessor, 2005's Freeman. Abandoning the tropes of contemporary European metal almost entirely, 6 Days To Nowhere is a melodic hard rock album in the '80s style. New singer Roberto Tiranti has settled comfortably into his role, and the prog-rock influences that have always been implicit in the band's sound come to the fore on tracks like the epic "Mother Earth," which recalls the prog-metal heyday of Queensryche. On the other hand, the banal cover of "Come Together" does no one any favors. While 6 Days To Nowhere may disappoint those longterm fans who haven't aready followed Thorsen to his current act Vision Divine, those still hanging on to their old King's X albums will likely find something of interest here.