Somehow my fellow Rockeziners weren’t very anxious to review ‘Domine’, the new album by Spanish rockers Dragonfly. I can’t blame them. I mean: how good can this release be when the musicians couldn’t even come up with an original band name? The record label gave it their best however. The art work is rather plain, but not that bad and there’s a little sticker promoting the disc. ‘Con la colaboracoinale Adrian Barilari, Leo “La Bestia” Jimenez, Johnny Ohlin’. My Spanish is good enough to figure out that these members of Rata Blanca, Saratoga and Dionysus delivered a contribution.

After just one and a half minute of music I’ve already made up my mind about ‘Domine’. The opener and title track is without doubt the worst intro I’ve ever heard. The orchestral approach and the miserably failed attempt to create a certain atmosphere make me want to remove the cd from my player immediately. If you can’t write a proper intro, you can’t write an album worth listening to.

The second track starts off exactly as one might expect. It’s the standard melodic hard rock we’ve already heard over one hundred times and probably will have to listen to for ever and ever. The only attempt made to give the music a ‘Dragonfly touch’ is a lousy guitar solo that even I can get out of my Squire.

You might get the impression that there is hardly anything positive to tell you about this release. Well, not quite. I’m impressed with vocalist Pablo Solano, probably the best musician of the bunch. I’m not too big a fan of Spanish vocals, but Solano’s go down pretty well. Too bad that most of the vocal melodies aren’t very strong, some even remind me of the Eurovision Song Contest (before Lordi that is).
All in all the most important thing is that I for one have heard too many cd’s like this one. I bet there are plenty of people that will appreciate Dragonfly. I’m just not one of them.