Band:	Seraphim
Album:	Ai
Style:	Power metal
Release date:	February 2004

01. Intro
02. Tears
03. Resurrect
04. Implementation
05. Desperate
06. Can't Take
07. My
08. In The Air
09. Gone
10. Before
11. Is That?
12. Instantaneous
13. The End

Taiwanese Metal, that's something. I wasn't very surprised when I for the first time heard about a new Asian Metal band, Seraphim, since Metal is very big in Japan, and some Japanese bands have come far, like X-Japan (Before the disbanded) and Concerto Moon. But that it should be Taiwan that was backing up Japan in Asian Metal, was quite surprising.

But anyway, let's get back to the album, entitled "AI".
And since I think most of you already know Seraphim, and certainly already read the excellent review of Kike here above, I won't be taking much of your time; I'll just add my impressions of the album.

The album, "AI" ("Love" on Chinese) is the third album of Seraphim, and it's also the last with the lead soprano Pay Lee, since she decided to leave the band because she's going to study opera in Germany.
She's now replaced by Quinn Weng, that's showing us Europeans what she can do in the last track "My", a bonus track for us in the EU with Quinn singing on Chinese.
Anyway, "AI" was released earlier in a Chinese version, and that is the version Kike have reviewed, but now it's also released in English, through Spanish label Arise, and that's the version I have.

First impression is of course the cover artwork, and that's a clear 10, what a wonderful cover artwork, one of the best this year, for sure.
Second impression, the lyrics and vocals, this might sound weird, but I don't think Seraphim have really succeeded here, the converting from Chinese to English is to visible sometimes, and it's almost ruin the whole songs. Then I also think that the vocals should have been done in Chinese, since the accent of Pay is way to strange in English.

Then we come to the third impression, that's also going to be the last, The general impression.
"AI" is a strong album, no doubt, but I hold the Chinese version higher, because of the reasons in the "second impression", but if we shall close our eyes for that, I think Seraphim have succeeded to create a worthy successor to "The Equal Spirit", not a masterpiece, but a strong album.
And the recipe of mixing Soprano with growls is once again showing itself successful.
Check this album out if you liked their other two albums, put take the Chinese one, because of the lyrics/vocals. But if you can stand it, it doesn't matter so much, a strong album is a strong album in any language.

Check Out: "Desperate", "Can't Take", "In the Air" & "Before".