Calles Rock Corner:

Google translation from Danish to English

"Danish Third Eye has released a masterpiece called Recipe For Disaster. It iseminently beautiful played and sung. All ten tracks are balm for the soul, if you like ProgMetal, and I can. It is a very exciting album with good events. There is lavished on the production and for each number. Nothing is left to chance, but is thought geniusthroughout. There is only one number is just under five minutes, the rest is over and it is I am very happy with. You can reach to immerse themselves in sound and arrangement ofeach song, and yet you press replay afterward, to dig a little deeper.

It's an album that has been two years in the making with changing crew and adversity,but the idea itself and the project was strong enough to handle it and Tommy Hansen ledhis magic hands over the project's final phase, which has made a strong album, if possible even stronger.

Per Johansson has a good voice to precisely Prog Metal, a bit like Bruce Dickinson(Iron Maiden), a real gevindst the Third Eye. Otherwise, the band consists of MartinDamgaard on drums, Andreas Schumann on bass, Thomas Kuhlmann on guitar, SimonKrogh on keyboards and Michael Bodin on guitar.

It really is a strong album I can only recommend the warmest. (6 out of 6) "

In Danish

"Danske Third Eye har udsendt et mesterværk ved navn Recipe For Disaster. Det er eminent flot spillet og sunget. Alle ti numre er balsam for sjælen, hvis man kan lide Prog Metal, og det kan jeg. Det er et meget spændende album med gode arrangementer. Der er kælet for produktionen og for hvert enkelt nummer. Der er ikke noget der er overladt til tilfældighederne, men er gennemtænkte genialiteter hele vejen igennem. Der er kun et nummer der er lige under fem minutter, resten er over, og det er jeg meget tilfreds med. Man kan nå at fordybe sig i lyden og arrangementet af hvert nummer, og alligevel trykker man på replay bagefter, for at grave lidt dybere.

Det er et album der har været to år under vejs med skiftende besætning og modgang, men selve ideen og projektet var stærkt nok til at klare det og Tommy Hansen førte sine magiske hænder over projektets sidste fase, hvilket kun har gjort et stærkt album om muligt endnu stærkere.

Per Johansson har en god stemme til netop Prog Metal, lidt i stil med Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden), en virkelig gevindst for Third Eye. Ellers består bandet af Martin Damgaard på trommer, Andreas Schumann på bas, Thomas Kuhlmann på guitar, Simon Krogh på keyboards og Michael Bodin på guitar.

Det er virkelig et stærkt album jeg kun kan anbefale på det varmeste. (6 ud af 6)"

Metal Country:

Google translation from Danish to English

There are very few and far between releases of Danish progressive / power metal, so it's nice when that finally pops a plate into the genre. Third Eye has now existed for some years, so it's been a record which has been long in coming, but let me say right away, it has been worth the wait. It keeps a very high level throughout and there is not one bad number to find. 

It may not be a disc which sits the first time you hear it, but it is also one of the forces, because every time you put it on, you discover something new. I can take me to sit and listen to the bass line one minute and then listen to the guitars the next. Each instrument is very clear in the mix, so there are many details, but if trying to listen for them. You can also just choose to listen to the whole and it is fucking cool, you have an ability to combine brutal verse with very melodic chorus. Just listen to a song like Eye Of Envy.Fantastic! And it is a style which you can find the whole album. 

Sanger Per Johansson has a truly breathtaking voice and knows how to bring moods as anxiety, paranoia and aggressiveness into the songs. His voice has changed considerably since the old days Fate, and may divide the waters a bit, but you can not get around that he is doing a fantastic job here. 

Psychological Breakthrough is another example of it. Super number of fat guitar riffs, fat 

bass line and guitar solo canon. Snake In The Grass, a brutal act with great choruses, and concentration to play, The Sacred & The Profane with the interaction between hard and soft and beautiful vocal lines, as well as The Psychiatrists with its special ambience and guitar piece ala Iron Maiden. I fucking want to highlight all the numbers, because they each have something to offer the listener. 

The whole album is a concept story about a man with the disease ADHD, so there is little to immerse themselves in, but you can also just listen to the tracks for what they are.

Michael Bodin and Thomas Kuhlmann is a great guitar team, Martin Damgaard a hard hitting and groovy drummer, not to mention the superb bassist, Andreas Schumann. The keyboard is on the record including played by Finn Zierler from Beyond Twilight and the whole is one of the coolest Danish metal plates in recent years, equipped with very nice sound. Production is top notch and mixed by none other than Tommy Hansen (Pretty Maids, etc.) 

As you can sense, I am very excited about the plate, and if you also have to power metal in the progressive end so doing you a favor and check this disc out.

In Danish

"Third Eye - Recipe for Disaster     (2010)    90%

Der er meget langt mellem udgivelser af dansk progressiv / power metal, så derfor er det dejligt når der endelig dukker en plade op i den genre. Third Eye har efterhånden eksisteret i en del år, så det har været en plade der har været længe undervejs, men lad mig sige med det samme, den har været værd at vente på. Den holder et meget højt niveau hele vejen igennem og der er ikke ét dårligt nummer at finde.

Det er muligvis ikke en skive der sætter sig første gang man hører den, men det er også en af styrkerne, for hver gang man sætter den på, opdager man noget nyt. Jeg kan tage mig i at sidde og lytte til basgangen det ene øjeblik, for derefter at lytte til guitarerne det næste. Hvert instrument er meget tydelig i mixet, så der er mange detaljer, hvis men prøver at lytte efter dem. Man kan også bare vælge at lytte til helheden, og den er fandme fed; De har en evne til at kombinere brutale vers med meget melodiske omkvæd. Bare hør et nummer som Eye Of Envy. Fantastisk! Og det er en stil som man kan finde på hele pladen.

Sanger Per Johansson har en helt forrygende stemme og forstår at bringe stemninger som angst, paranoia og aggressivitet ind i sangene. Hans stemme har udviklet sig meget siden de gamle Fate dage, og vil muligvis dele vandene lidt, men man kommer ikke uden om at han gør et helt fantastisk arbejde her.

Psychological Breakthrough er endnu et eksempel på det. Super nummer med fede guitar riffs, fed

basgang og kanon guitarsolo. Snake In The Grass, et brutalt nummer med fantastisk omkvæd, og fusions stykke, The Sacred And The Profane med vekselvirkningen mellem hårdt og blødt og flotte vokal linier, samt The Psychiatrist med sin specielle stemning og guitarstykke ala Iron Maiden. Jeg har sgu lyst til at fremhæve alle numrene, for de har hver især noget at byde lytteren.

Hele pladen er en koncept historie om en mand med sygdommen ADHD, så der er lidt at fordybe sig i, men man kan jo også bare høre numrene for hvad de er.

Michael Bodin og Thomas Kuhlmann er et super guitar-team, Martin Damgaard en hårdtslående og groovy trommeslager, for ikke at tale om den suveræne bassist, Andreas Schumann. Keyboardet er på pladen bl.a. spillet af Finn Zierler fra Beyond Twillight og helheden er en af de fedeste danske metal plader de seneste år, udstyret med meget flot lyd. Produktionen er helt i top og mikset af ingen ringere end Tommy Hansen (Pretty Maids mfl.)

Som man kan fornemme, er jeg meget begejstret for pladen, og hvis I også er til power metal i den progressive ende, så gør jer den tjeneste at tjekke denne skive ud.

Peter "Steal" Leick"

SeaOfTranquility:

"Here's another holdover from 2010 that we are just getting into our hands now, and it's a damn good one. Third Eye is a Danish progressive metal band who have been in existence in one form or another since 2003, but Recipe For Disaster is their debut release. The band is comprised of Per Johansson on vocals, Thomas Kuhlmann & Michael Bodin on guitar, Martin Damgaard on drums, Andreas Schumann on bass, and Simon Krogh on keyboards.

The first thing you notice are the vocal histrionics of Johansson. This guy can flat out sing, but the interesting thing is he combines elements of Nevermore's Warrel Dane, Dream Theater's James LaBrie, Queensryche's Geoff Tate, Into Eternity/Iced Earth belter Stu Block, Pain of Salvation frontman Daniel Gildenlow, Tim 'Ripper' Owens, and even the legendary King Diamond himself, into a unique sound all his own. His powerful, theatrical, and at times over the top delivery soars above the intricate and often time crushing guitar riffage and complex rhythms from the rest of the band. More importantly, as diverse as these songs are, they are instantly memorable. From the extreme prog-metal of "Dark Angel" to the complex & avant-garde metal of "Snake in the Grass", these songs just stick in your head like glue and never let go. A tune like "The Sacred and the Profane" mixes thrash, progressive & power metal all in one cohesive fashion, and the 10+ minute epic "The Psychiatrist" provides everything prog-metal fans crave, such as blazing guitar/bass/keyboard unison passages, heavy riffs, soaring vocals, and dramatic atmosphere.

Not a bad song in the bunch, and I can easily see Third Eye getting snatched up by any of the larger metal labels in short order. This is a band to keep your eye on folks, mark my words."

HeavyLaw

Google translation from French to English

"What are the different goals of inviting a "guest" on an album? We can define two.Initially that will benefit the one who calls and a second which conferred a benefit on the guest. The first is to increase sales of an album with the participation of celebrities and influential as the second is to make known the said persons invited by the fame of the group "inviting". These two objectives are clearly identifiable to certain courses, for example, Ayreon selling albums by the group of "stars" (and writing Lucassen but do not deny the attraction of guests) and by In this way, also allows groups to make known (personally, I discovered through participation Gotthard Steve Lee on the last album).This example is speaking as the concept itself is based on the gathering of names but these goals are found on many other groups considered trivial. 

Third Eye, a small combo of the new Danish scene, used this system "marketing" to talk about themselves. Indeed, the group decided to request the services of the talented Finn Zierler (creator and mastermind of Beyond Twilight). And I must confess that if I speak to you today this group is good because the man has helped this young band otherwise I probably would have never thrown one ear. Yes, it is unfortunate but true. The primary purpose of a guest, described above, therefore works well for this training, but in my humble opinion, the second objective is not appropriate here, since I doubt that people make the knowledge of Mr. Zierler in listening to Third Eye. The man is well enough known with his band Beyond Twilight. 

And what better then I find that argument to say that if you like Beyond Twilight, you'll love Third Eye? Indeed, we found in both formations that same power, the same sense of melody, the same innate sense for writing punchy choruses and, above this same penchant for psychedelic and powerful voice. But stop there would not be professional of me, let's go a little deeper into the details ... 

"Recipe for Disaster" is an album of progressive metal but glancing towards power metal. These days, we can see that the power stage augurs a new fashion. In general, the groups constituting the base keeps this power but gives a progressive Relan their music using breaks "to drawer" and many changes of rhythm. Third Eye is the opposite, he keeps a progressive basis with a typical rhythm section (gorgeous by the way) and a jerky guitar riffs and adds a touch power, in melodic tunes using only the very unifying style metal can bring. Quite simply, absolutely all the choruses are powerful. How not to be taken by 'Dark Angel', 'Recipe for Disaster "or" Snake In The Grass "? It is simply impossible. Third Eye offers us ten nuggets progressive metal with powerful sound and sharp, typically Danish, with great melodies. 

The atmosphere of the album is dark due to its concept. Treating mental illness and behavioral disorders, lyrics and vocal lines are meant sometimes fluid, sometimes tortured, sometimes aggressive. Tommy Hansen (who mastered the album) even wanted to expand the concept by adding psychedelic effects on the voice ("Recipe for Disaster," "Psychological Breakthought" ...). The record is great and my faith entirely in the tone. My children and what a voice! Per Johansson (ex-Fate) is simply exceptional.Slightly nasal, it ranks among these singers stamps powerful and breathtaking range.We think of Jorn Lande, Russel Allen for power, Kelly Carpenter for the range, and finally Mats Leven. Without hesitation, the big highlight of this album (with chorus). 

The album leaves the listener hardly breathe, the guy turns with astonishing rapidity. The performance of the ballad is even removed, if you want a little sweetness will have you meet some breaks piano titles and beginnings of "Six Feet Under" and "The Psychiatrist" because everything is firmly muscled and without dead time. A slap in the open mouth, I tell you. In addition to being powerful and muscular, the album is occasionally groovy evidence for the title "Darkness Into Dawn" to the dazzling rhythm section. This aspect groovy occur on each composition and brings the album may be what zest of freshness that many of you will need to if "air". 

The album ends with "The Psychiatrist". A ten-minute long title to the concept eerily reminiscent of the album "The Devil's Hall of Fame Beyond Twilight (wink?) With an individual attempting to enter his brain using his computer. This piece is a summary of what has been said before, I will not dwell more on the subject. The only regret is that it is "just" the same level as other compositions. I mean by that is expected with this kind of a final, an explosion sound, something insane. While there either, the title is great but the same ilk as the others and I admit this is the only thing that keeps me from putting the maximum score for this album. THE ONLY, I TELL YOU! 

For you to understand, take a shaker and put it inside: the melodic and dark Evergrey, the prog side of the Ark and turn psychedelic Beyond Twilight, mix well and you get Third Eye. It makes you wonder? Well dream no more "Recipe for Disaster" is here for you.And if you're still not convinced, know that Finn Zierler, himself, made two keyboards solos ("Recipe for Disaster," "The Psychiatrist") on the album. Yeah, you thought I was talking about sir, in the introduction, only for marketing purposes (for you to read my column)? No, by my column cons itself has a marketing purpose: to make you buy the album! As you will understand the first album by Third Eye is a marvel and is classified in the album of the year."

Devilution:

Google translation from Danish to English

"Sublime prog in Third Eye! 

It exudes progressiveness, but despite the title it is not a disastrous recipe. Quite the contrary. There are lots of potential! 

After the first listen of this disc is not in doubt. Here we have something that might be enormous. I'm usually in the dark, black and evil part of the metal spectrum, but Third Eye immediately took a ride myself. In a good way. And it was only better the more gennemlytninger it was. 

Third Eye is progressive. No doubt about it. It is complex and yet classic. It would now be easy to name drop everything from Iron Maiden to Psychotic Waltz and over to land men from Mercenary. So I do. Third Eye has some of their elements, and do it without copying, but clearly have their own style. And it sounds damn good. Already on the solo on the title track 'Recipe For Disaster', it is clear that one can not just write catchy chorus and great verses. No, there are also tracks the improvised within guitarlir. Third Eye has thus the entire palette to paint with. 

As befits when you are in the progressive corner, so you sometimes walk out of a tangent and venturing parka with extra-long songs. That makes Third Eye also momentarily and sørme whether it works without seeming trite. 'Recipe For Disaster' is a really good slice, and when you consider that it is a debut album, you are the more pleasantly surprised. For the production is spot on, the material is well thought out and implemented and generally just very high level for a debut disc. 

I'm certainly reverse and booklets me by some spellbinding compositions and well executed solos, and then I have not even really praised the versatile vocal performance that completes the musical expression in a brilliant way. For the Third Eye is not just technically good. They also write some good songs, good melodies and a good sense of song structure. This year's Danish positive surprise."

In Danish

"Sublim prog i Third Eye!

Det emmer af progressivitet, men trods titlen er det ikke nogen katastrofal opskrift. Tværtimod. Der er masser af potentiale!

Efter første gennemlytning af denne skive er man ikke i tvivl. Her har vi noget, der kan blive stort. Jeg er normalt til den mørke, sorte og onde del af metalspektret, men Third Eye tog øjeblikkelig fusen på mig. På den gode måde. Og det blev kun bedre desto flere gennemlytninger det blev til.

Third Eye er progressivt. Ingen tvivl om det. Det er komplekst og alligevel klassisk. Det ville nu være nemt at namedroppe alt fra Iron Maiden til Psychotic Waltz og over til landsmændene fra Mercenary. Så det gør jeg. Third Eye har lidt af deres elementer, og gør det uden at kopiere, men har helt klart deres egen stil. Og det lyder sgu godt. Allerede på soloen på titelnummeret 'Recipe For Disaster' står det klart, at man ikke bare kan skrive catchy omkvæd og gode vers. Nej, der er også styr på det improvisatoriske indenfor guitarlir. Third Eye har altså hele paletten at male med.

Som det sig hør og bør når man er i det progressive hjørne, så vandrer man sommetider ud af en tangent og vover pelsen med ekstra lange sange. Det gør Third Eye også momentvis, og sørme om ikke det fungerer uden at virke trivielt. 'Recipe For Disaster' er en rigtig god skive, og når man tænker på at det er en debutplade, så bliver man desto mere positivt overrasket. For produktionen er lige i øjet, materialet er gennemtænkt og gennemført og generelt er niveauet bare meget højt for en debutskive.

Jeg er i hvert fald omvendt og hæfter mig ved nogle medrivende kompositioner og veludførte soli, og så har jeg endda ikke rigtig rost den alsidige vokalpræstation, der afrunder det musikalske udtryk på fornem vis. For Third Eye er ikke bare teknisk gode. De skriver også nogle gode sange, gode melodier og en god fornemmelse for sangstruktur. Årets danske positive overraskelse."

Rockpages:

"Third Eye come from Odense, Denmark; this is their debut and once you get to listen to it, you get impressed by two things. The easiness they perform those tough-rough Heavy/Prog themes and Per Johansson’s voice. Those of you listening will end up searching for its roots… The guy combines Maiden with Sanctuary, featuring some King Diamond notes! Lots of backing vocals, a whole bunch of FX, irony, diabolical laughter and narrations… The rest of the band is playing fab stuff in the back tho… They change the rhythms, they change tempos, they are experimenting, they are playing killer music… That riff from ”Dark angel“ is a cause for moshing. Despite the clear Progressive side, this is an album for serious backbone injuring due to METAL guitars and the way the voice is spitting the words…

Tommy Hansen has done the mix&mastering thing, which means you will get to listen to whatever it is you want to listen to. What I’d like to underline is that the band had the contract offer from Escape almost a year after serious searching and two years after starting to record. Bands already in the studio recording and dreaming of inking a deal, please, keep that in mind – or else…

Costas Koulis"

lagrosseradio:

Google translation from French to English

"Small youngster newly arrived on the scene of prog metal, dominated by Dream Theater for years, now the Danish book Third Eye, a very recent formation, and in the year 2010 released his first essay: "Recipe for Disaster," in May on Escape Music. Not easy in an environment like this to stand out and find a place in the sun alongside the sizes of its kind, to find a mark and put his imprint. However, revelations as Aspera succeed. And Third Eye, then?

What comes to mind when listening to this cake is a big slap. Such maturity on the part of a group as recent is simply amazing. Indeed, the Danish prog metal has really something special, a touch of freshness and originality, departing from their colleagues by a sound of their own, assertive personality already. The compositions and very diverse and combining with technical brilliance, power, virtuosity and feeling are precious stones carved with remarkable precision. Of course, like any good prog metal band, ensuring our Scandinavian know in one piece moult variations and change of pace, a trap for some, demonstrating mastery for others.Third Eye knows his subject and delivers tracks that we delight from start to finish, how to "Recipe for Disaster," the title track, ensuring swift and muscular parts more, all on a background of technical guitar solos, with parts more melodic and experimental forays small keyboard, sprinkled with a fairly impressive vocal versatility. The other titles are not left out, and boredom is avoided by a multitude of effects and complex structures but still retain a skeleton, a conductive line, so that the listener is found neither lost nor confused or disoriented by what he hears. Our Danish show the extent of their talent by engaging, always with success, the song fits in it and driving like "Dark Angel" in the grip of melancholy ballad and sweetness, but with a chorus titanic ( "Six Feet Under"), crossing almost jazz "Darkness Into Dawn" or the more technical piece, where the proof of the absolute knowledge of the subject is on "Eye of Envy," where solos enchainent guitar passages quieter planes instrumental sound, appearance of soft piano notes, while the almost 9 minutes of pure sensations. Expect also to the passages that you will remember long ago, hit-"Solitary Confinement" and "Psychological Breakthrough" is filled with memorable vocal lines, strong and masterful. You were missing bombs progs? Third Eye rule the situation. Special mention to skeud masterpiece at its cornerstone, the gold nugget: "The Psychiatrist", the perfect synthesis of the most successful prog piece, by so many moods in succession, diversity in the same way , intensity, technique, a treat, simply. Only now, we are faced with prog metal and it is not certain that the hook is done immediately. This album is so rich and so tones combines diverse and varied that it will be difficult to soak up the atmosphere proposed in this album the first time. Many plays are necessary for the listener to assimilate a whole also stocked. The risk is that the more impatient leave out this album, which would be a shame.

With a production clear where each element is a special place and is audible to the listener.Another weapon to our Danish, conquering the throne of prog metal.

And the singer, Per Johanson, is a revelation. What strikes most about this man is his vocal incredibly varied, from one register to another in a split second, daring flights of increasingly successful as each other, excellent treble, no doubt, he knows his voice and knows how to do what he wants. Tone, very unusual, sometimes we remember Russell Allen (Symphony X), but without being a copy, far away. Like music training, identity is a voice quality put forward and giving all its intensity to the music. Beware though, this vocalist is so special that again, it can penalize the training in terms of grip.

Mature, amazing, here's a new hope of progressive metal that turns to light. Third Eye proves this "Recipe for Disaster" that the genre still has a bright future ahead of him, and that is ready to be ensured. With a debut album of such quality, no doubt the second will, he eagerly awaited. Power metal reveal Pathfinder, symphonic metal Diabulus In Musica, and the revelation of prog, this is Third Eye. Grandiose!...."

Metal To Infinity:

"I’ve heard several awesome releases this year and we’re only halfway. Nevertheless I can already say which albums will end high in my year list. Heathen, Nevermore and Third Eye. Who? Third Eye? Never heard of them? I did neither until I discovered them on the Hellspawn website from my friend, Mister Hell (check http://www.hellspawn.be). Mister Hell knows my taste and should have known this band would blow me totally away and they did…they still do and they always will! 

If you checked my year lists before you would have noticed Darkology and Outworld ended as the ultimate albums of the specific years they were released. No coincidence that Third Eye fits this row because they deliver the same quality as the very first Beyond Twilight to name another point of similarity. Do you get the picture? I suppose so, first class Progressive Power Metal, from the highest possible level on every single detail! 

I just adore this kind of music because it’s mysterious, melodic, powerful, surprising and every second there something new to discover. The wall of sound, created by superb guitars, subtle bass guitar lines and technical played drums are the base of this whole experiment. Add guitar solos that are played with all possible feelings and those varied, dark arrangements and you’ll be as speechless as I am right now, even after the first listen. 

Third Eye’s singer is a man called Per Johansson. This man is totally unknown to me but only by this release he searches and even deserves his place amongst my all time favorite vocalists. He’s comparable with Jorn Lande (Beyond Twilight era) and even more to Kelly Carpenter, the extraordinary front man of Darkology and Outworld. I know, I keep on repeating the same bands but Third Eye fits so perfect in this row that it’s impossible to name others…. Believe me this is a huge compliment because every single band I’ve mentioned delivered perfect Heavy Metal before! Per Johanssons has incredible possibilities with his voice; from touching the highest notes to singing a grunt and adding hysterical and mysterious vibes in his timbre to end with giving every single note the right emotions… Mind-blowing! 

Third Eye delivers one after another highlight and it is impossible to say which song is my favorite one. This spectacular bands takes you by the throat and plays tunes that will be forever in your darkest thoughts! They experienced with instruments and vocals but never lose their sense for melody. This is awesomeness in its purest form, another example how sublime Progressive Power Metal really can be. They’re violent and aggressive on the one hand, emotional and heart touching at the other. This is a US style Progressive Power Metal masterpiece, capturing the sheer essence of the genre and improving, ranging from fierce and aggressive numbers to catchy, song-oriented tunes all the way to towering, multi-faceted Metal workouts! The subtle atmospheric elements are the details that make this debut album sound so incredible good! The solos are ripping guitar, the riffs cutting but can’t always be compared with what the Harris brothers did in Darkology or what Rusty Cooley did in Outworld.  

No doubts in my mind that  ”Recipe For Disaster“ will end in my top five his year. This is how I want my Metal to sound and I can only hope Third Eye won’t be another band that will release only one perfect album. Nevertheless I realize it will be a hard job to do better because I rate this one with a very positive score. Check these Dannish guys out at: http://www.myspace.com/thirdeyeband.  "

Musicwaves:

Google translation from French to English

"8.5/10 | After two years of testing of any kind, Third Eye finally releases his first album.It's a real success for this group, formed in 2003 and will be entitled to all the galleys departure of singer Casper Grieff, chaotic recording that lasted almost a year and then again a departure, the keyboardist Rasmus Kostending ... Finally, Michael Bodin and his former students have had the chance to lead the project, with the help of two strong personalities. Firstly, the singer's Per Johansson, among others known for his participation in album Scratch N 'Sniff and V in the Fate, led at the time of the first appointed by Mattias "IA" Eklundh, and that of a Another well-known musician, Finn Zierler Beyond Twilight, who came to help by making the keyboard parts of some tracks (the remaining parts are the work of Tommy Hansen also responsible for the final mix and mastering). 

And the result is surprisingly coherent! Despite such a course, the album is a real little bomb sound "Danish", between power metal and progressive metal. All at a global fragrance Beyond Twilight of course, but we also think Ark ("Darkness Into Dawn") or to design, without the group not to divest a moment of identity already strong in large part by Stamp singular Johansson, nasal at first but turns quickly to a significant extent, reminiscent at times even Jorn Lande Russel Allen ("Snake In The Grass"). The compositions torture could also become a trademark: melodic and concise, never excessive, they know to stay catchy despite the dark atmosphere of the whole squarely, openly and even groovy here and there ("Darkness Into Dawn "or the amazing break" The Sacred And The Profane "). Lovers of instrumental parts should also be tough to angels with a number of parties both well written and frighteningly well executed. 

Tommy Hansen, as usual, delivered a work of craftsmanship, very typical but very efficient, with great ideas - especially the song ("Psychological Breakthrough"), or the sound of guitars, thick and powerful without lose his incisive. A jewel of production, which already allows for Third Eye to make its game from the multitude of training working in a more or less similar. We therefore can not wish them an excellent continuation after this first game, they will, hopefully, forget the disappointments of those difficult first years. A very nice surprise that has something to celebrate a wide range of fans ... Highly recommended!"

Unprogged:

Google translation from Italian to English

"Inflated. Throughout the year just past, this word was often compared to prog metal. The technology has brought production to a record within reach of all and last time that did not diminish the quality of products arriving on the shelves and increase the quantity. The bands that are new to this kind have increased and with it a kind of inflation that was already suffering from lack of innovation. But the intention in this review is not to make the usual reprimand but to appreciate one of the disks that nevertheless manages to not choke in this sea of ??mediocre productions. We are talking about Recipe For Disaster, the first work of the Third Eye EP, titled after the band released in 2005. The average length of ten tracks, five to ten minutes, are meticulous in detail, thanks to a production worthy of its name. All the tools are in place: the two guitars of all other relevant parties in order to create a wall of sound is not indifferent and the rhythm section is not lacking in creativity and never leaves the empty sound situations throughout the disc. The keyboards will not be intimidated by the power given off by others and can be heard without encroaching too much. The real strength however lies in Johansson heading the group. His tone of voice, angular and middle-high register, is able to amaze the amount of different parts that can bear. Helped by the overdubs, the singer all the tracks he launches into a series of vocal performances are all different from each other: the precise technical acute, clean and full vibrato safe, substantial and scratching scream. A real wild card. The structures and harsh distorted sound that characterize all the songs you do not indulge in too many games but deviations consistently follow the tracks of classic progressive metal mold. It would be pointless to draw up a schedule describing the whole track by track record, the best way to appreciate both the vocal melody lines created by the sextet is to listen directly to their latest album "Recipe For Disaster." An honest job, but certainly no great claims can emerge over a huge amount of proposals that often have only half the substance of these Danes."

MetalFactory:

"After releasing "Recipe For Disaster" the Danes an ambitious album. For the album literally explodes from great ideas and varied songwriting. They sent commute between Heavy Metal and Symphonic Metal, without ever slipping into kitsch. The latter would happen, would probably soon the musicians throw their instruments out of shame into the grain. Finally, the band sings do not have any fantasy battles, but about the diseases ADHC and OCD. The song order is the disease process may dar. We therefore assume that it is this album is a heart issue. And they sometimes got very painful and difficult experiences now lead in songs, which always come up with great hooks and choruses. The album can move successfully with "Solitary Confident" and the title song ever brilliant. This shows the whole width of singers singing Per Johansson. Rather humming in the lower registers, he ventures again and again in certain heights.Especially where he also reminds always easy to Tim 'Ripper' Owens. With the quiet "Six Feet Under" Third Eye before venturing into the progressive corner and win. Only the tricky 10-minute "The Psychiatrist" I still can not follow properly. Summa is summarum "Recipe For Disaster" a great, serious heavy metal album that could become a long-standing reference work of the Danes. Why I still do not lift up on the 9-point mark? Sorry for missing the outstanding hits. Sun slides "Recipe For Disaster" just barely on the term 'unique' past. Yet, the album any fan of honest and great slightly progressive heavy metal music is highly recommended. 

Roger W. 

Score: 8.8 out of 10"

RockRebelMagazine:

Google translation from Italian to English

"Recipe for Disaster" is a job that required a lot of sacrifices for these Third Eye, Danish band active since 2003, only now recording debut. 

A very aggressive, very definitely influenced vocally by some King Diamond, a distinguished fellow of the band, but the band sounds very different from Mercyful Fate, and could be classified as progressive metal. Queensryche and Dream Theater put into a large blender, shakeratelo with copious doses of style Megadeth "Rust in Piece", was sprinkled a bit of Pantera "Cowboys from Hell" and you've got the cocktail "Third Eye".Bittersweet cocktail that is not fully successful, to be honest. It is a concept album consisting of ten tracks ten pages or more, as specified in their booklet and is a person who is diagnosed with a condition called obsessive compulsive disorder "and all the effects that drugs produce this person. The superstar singer of the band is certainly Per Johansson, who manages to move from purely melodic to heavy shade in a flash and it seems there are different singers in one song, sometimes. Other very good musician is the drummer Martin Damgaard, which engages in various parts double bass, with excellent results. A job with attention to every detail and a single flaw in my opinion: sometimes the pieces tend to be long and a po'ripetitivi running. Having said that, in my humble opinion, but I can 'to express a good opinion about this band that will surely look good in the long and busy summer festival metals, at some stage or as secondary to some big name supporters. Highlights of the CD are certainly worth mentioning "Dark Angel", which attacks you inch by inch, like a pack of piranhas that vedon meat for months or Queensrychiana "Six Feet Under" very evocative and marks the first moment of calm in cd. A CD that I would recommend only to those in the full and progressive rock can fully appreciate, as it certainly is not easily absorbed. 

Review by MauRnrPirate"

Angelfire

"THIRD EYE is the next Metalband signed to ESCAPE MUSIC. The band features FATE lead singer PER JOHANSSON and is musically playing actually a very experimental way of Metal that combines Power, Prog and Epic Metal, ending up sounding like a KING DIAMOND out of control. Although it’s not bad at all what we get to hear, this is one of those albums you either love or hate, because it is sometimes quite experimental in especially the vocal department, with Per sometimes talking, then screaming and doing all kinds of way to impress the listener, just like good ole KING DIAMOND. Like I said already before, it’s something you have to appreciate and therefore I think MERCYFUL FATE or KING DIAMOND fans will most likely love this first CD of THIRD EYE, but for the regular ‘melodic’ fans there is not much of interest to be found here…

(Points: 8.0 out of 10)"

TheMayfairMallzine

"It all began back in 2001 when the quartet of Martin Damguard, Andreas Schumann, Thomas Kuhlmann and Rasmus Kostending started a band at school.  As with all young bands they were finding their feet and trying out different styles of metal when their teacher Michael Bodin asked if the guys would like to try some tunes he had written and almost immediately the chemistry was there and Third Eye was born.

Things were progressing great guns but the band still needed to fill the vocalist spot.  The band thought they found the perfect candidate in Casper Grieff but this was only a short alliance as in 2007 Greiff left the band.  With the band on the verge of completing the bands first full length album things weren’t looking good.  After six months luck would have it that Michael ran into Per Johansson and the seeds were once again sown.

But again the band were plagued with set backs putting the album back nearly 12 months, following that keyboardist Kostending left the band and once again it looked like the album would be have to be put on hold once more, but luckily Finn Zierler (Beyond Twilight) stepped in to help with the keyboards on the album.

So the title 'Recipe For Disaster' might seem a bit apt, but was it worth the wait?  Well to be quite honest yes, it may have taken a few spins to fully get into, but this album is a really great metal album.

The album gets underway with ‘Solitary Confinement’, a real gritty opening salvo from the guitars of Kuhlmann but it’s the tremendous metal vocals of Johansson that give the metal giants like Rob Halford and Ralf Schweepers a run for their money.

The chunky riffs and thunderous rhythms of the ‘Recipe For Disaster’ are up next, with Johansson again unleashing a tidal wave of power enthused vocals once more.  This is a heavier piece than the opener and shows the band are stuck on one style of metal and are willing to take a chance or two on the album.

There is a dark vein running through the album at times like the massive ‘Dark Angel’ and ‘Eye of Insanity’, but there are also some more sublime metal moments like the melodic tones of Six Feet Under’ and the almost sedate ‘Darkness Into Dawn’, where Johansson brings in both the light and dark side of his vocal might.

The metal comes thick and fast like a AK47 on overkill with ‘Snake In The Grass’ then ‘The Sacred and the Profane’, a track that has a Prog Metal feel but doesn’t feel apart from what has gone before.  The album closer ‘The Psychiatrist’ which starts off with a narrative intro and builds from here into a real classy metal masterpiece that rounds off a great album.  Let's hope others think the same, because after all the trials and tribulations the band have gone through in their short lifetime, they deserve a shot at the big time."

HeavyMetal.dk:

Google translation from Danish to English

"Danish Third Eye is on the street with their debut" Recipe for Disaster "and the debut. I might as well say right away that this review will be one long shame-rosning, this disc is nothing less than brilliant. I heard band live last summer and had therefore actually quite high expectations for their peculiar prog power metal is just in my ballgame, but anyway I'm even pleasantly surprised. The disc has been some time coming but it has certainly been worth the wait. 

"The Story Needs være duty" sounds in the chorus on the first track "Solitary confinement", and it is clear that feeling you get. There is a story to be told and singer Per Johansson is the man with the mission! 2. track is the title track "Recipe for Disaster", where it becomes clear that this is a band who also mastered their odd beats, along with this year's most catchy choruses! Tight guitar riffs, nice but not dominant keybordflader, verve drumming, what can you ask for more? It is in fact anything that characterizes the whole disc, the complexity goes hand in hand with the catchy, without ever indulging in clichés. There are no weak songs, but I'll have to highlight especially 2 songs, "Dark Angel" third disc cutting, a complex affair held together by an insanely catchy chorus, with some cool, cool vocal Dubs. Those are also many of the entire disc, and it works insanely well, because there is plenty of room for it in the mix. The whole album is pretty "dry" was produced, and it seems to me quite brilliant, you hear each instrument clearly, and there is plenty of room for vocalist Per Johansson's magnificent vocals. He fills a lot, and it is fully deserved, the man is completely up in the premier league, think Jørn Countries Kelly Sundown Carpenter, etc. For satan da! With a more "gravy" production, it would not work so well. So extra kudos for that. 

The second number I specifically have to emphasize is "Psychological Breakthrough", new listeners may eg start here. There is NO other than Third Eye who reads this! It's a match made in heaven by musicians from different backgrounds and different ages (I guess I can say without offending anyone?) To try to put labels on "Recipe for Disaster" and which we do for readers' sake , then we are in the same circus as Beyond Twilight or Futures End, it is progressive metal but with a more fresh "in your face" like approach to things which makes me think of t.ex Nevermore. A two-part guitar riff in "Six Feet Underground" makes me just think of old school Psychotic Waltz. Brilliant! 

In summary, I would say that it is an incredible seamless experience that has the great force that it can be enjoyed immediately, but you just get happier and happier each through listening, when one discovers more and more cool details, and there are many .If you like Psychotic Waltz, Nevermore and everything that can be crammed into between the two polar opposites, you should definitely check this album out. Hell, check it out regardless, it is this year's Danish publishing. "

In Danish

"Danske Third Eye er på gaden med deres debut “Recipe for Disaster“ og hvilken debut. Jeg kan lige så godt sige med det samme, at denne anmeldelse bliver én lang skam-rosning, for denne skive er intet mindre end genial. Jeg hørte bandet live sidste sommer, og havde derfor egentlig ret høje forventninger, for deres særegne progpowermetal er lige i min boldgade, men alligevel er jeg endda positivt overrasket. Skiven har været et stykke tid undervejs men det har sandelig været ventetiden værd. 

“The story needs to be told“ lyder det i omkvædet på første skæring “Solitary Confinement“, og det er klart den fornemmelse man får. Der er en historie der skal fortælles og sanger Per Johansson er manden med dén mission! 2. track er titelnummeret “Recipe for Disaster“, hvor det bliver klart at der her er tale om et band der også mestrer deres odd beats, tillige med dette års mest fængende omkvæd!! Tighte guitarriffs, flotte men ikke dominerende keybordflader, smæk for skillingen trommespil, hvad kan man ønske sig mere? Det er i den hele taget noget der kendetegner hele skiven, at kompleksiteten går hånd i hånd med det iørefaldende, dog uden på noget tidspunkt at henfalde til klicheer. Der er ingen svage numre, men jeg bliver nødt til at fremhæve specielt 2 numre; “Dark Angel“ skivens 3. skæring, en kompleks affære holdt sammen af et sindsygt fængende omkvæd, med nogle fede, fede vokal-dubs. Dem er der i øvrigt mange af på hele skiven, og det fungerer vanvittig godt, fordi der er god plads til det i mixet. Hele pladen er ret “tørt“ produceret, og det er efter min mening helt genialt, man hører hvert instrument helt tydeligt, og der er god plads til sanger Per Johanssons storladne vokal. Han fylder meget, og det er fuldt fortjent, den mand er helt oppe i premier league, tænk Jørn Lande, Kelly Sundown Carpenter etc. For satan da!! Med en mere “sovset“ produktion ville det slet ikke fungere så godt. Så ekstra kudos for det. 

Det andet nummer jeg specielt bliver nødt til at fremhæve er “Psychological Breakthrough“, nye lyttere kan f.eks begynde her. Der er INGEN andre end Third Eye der lyder sådan! Det er et match made in heaven af musikere med forskellig baggrund, og i forskellige aldre (kan jeg vist godt sige uden at fornærme nogen?) Hvis man skal forsøge at sætte label på “Recipe for Disaster“ og det skal vi jo for læsernes skyld, så er vi i samme cirkus som Beyond Twilight eller Futures End, det er progressiv metal, men med en mere frisk “in your face“ agtig tilgang til tingene som får mig til at tænke på t.ex Nevermore. Et tostemmigt guitar riff i “Six feet Underground“ får mig lige til at tænke på old school Psychotic Waltz. Genialt! 

Sammenfattende vil jeg sige, at det er en utrolig helstøbt oplevelse, som har den store force at den kan nydes umiddelbart, men man bliver bare gladere og gladere for hver gennemlytning, når man opdager flere og flere fede detaljer, og dem er der mange af. Hvis du kan lide Psychotic Waltz, Nevermore og alt hvad der kan proppes ind imellem de to modpoler bør du absolut checke dette album ud. Hell, check det ud uanset, det er årets danske udgivelse. "

rocinante-rock:

Google translation from Spanish to English

"THIRD EYE is a Danish training you have in your line-up to Per Johansson, former vocalist of hardrockers FATE. However, the mentors of the musical this conceptual work are the two guitarists of the group: Michael Bodin (ex Prophets of Doom, among others) and Thomas Kuhlmann. Instead, Johansson has shaped most of the letters. THIRD EYE is a collection of progressive rock and metal that brings us to the world of someone with ADD (translated into Castilian acronym stands for "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). The concept worked throughout this board has to do with the life of this man who also has been diagnosed with OCD. On the musical side, THIRD EYE can be welcomed by fans of progressive metal, in the vein of the era Queensryche "Operation: Mindcrime", although they admire the style of Symphony X or the Hungarians may also AGE OF NEMESIS enjoy this work. The band is completed by Martin Damgaard on drums, Simon on keyboards and Andreas Krogh Schumann on bass. Despite being his debut album, "Recipe for Disaster" is a work of excellent quality in sound and mastered by Tommy Hansen, who has worked with groups from the likes of HELLOWEEN, TNT, PRETTY MAIDS, etc. in the Jailhouse Studios based in Horsens (Denmark). On the other hand, Per Johansson's voice has a sensational performance, whether in the high tones and in the most serious. The role of the guitar is fundamental, the solos are very experimental, but are able to erizarte skin. Martin Damgaard battery low Andreas and do not let up, there are many turns rhythmic, soft passages and moments very heavy.Highlights include the initial "Solitary confinement" atmospheric "Six Feet Under," "A breakthrough psychologial" (with a powerful riff very Heavy Metal), "Darkness Into Dawn" (where Per Johansson raises his voice soaring records.) Everything else is not wasted and it shows that, as a debut album, the musicians are worthy of unparalleled professionalism. Good start and I hope that more Third Eye for years to come!"

Vianocturna

Google translation from Portugise to English

"Recipe For Disaster marks the debut of Danish sextet name Third Eye in another release of Escape Music are here analyzed. With themes generally long (between five minutes of the opening track and almost eleven track closing the album), the ten topics account for more than an hour of progressive metal (must already have guessed over the length of the themes!). But let's add that this progressive little different than normally heard. Unlike the theatrical sense that the vocal arrangements often convey, by different instrumental and vocal aggression at times achieved. But of course, with many similarities: perfect technique, complex structures (some even too complex which means several hearings of deconstruction), dynamic and rhythmic structure which makes both vocally instrumental or two names to appear as a reference in the sound of Third Eye: Nevermore and Communic. Vocal level, Recipe For Disaster "gives us a truly brilliant Per Johansson, taking the reins of the issues without fear, competentíssimo in all registers, with a truly eloquent and dramatic superior ability, or to such theatrics we talked about earlier. No less brilliant is soils, highly technical and precise, but simultaneously poignant and full of sensuality. And then there are the songs, many of them of great class, some of which sometimes reach peaks of rare genius and brilliance! The best example are the rhythms of Brazilianized Darkness Into Dawn, as you note, possibly, an approach Creek. But issues such as Solitary Confinement, Six Feet Under, or The Eye Of Envy Psychiatrist, form also a great set and it helps to take shape this debut of a genius who deserves to be disclosed."

The Metal Pulse:

"Denmark has struck gold with their best metal band yet, Third Eye. Their debut cd "Recipe For Disaster" is more like a recipe for success that demonstrates 10 tracks of quality organic prog metal perfection timing in at nearly 70 minutes. While every song on the album is technically impressive from the first note to the last you can hear and feel the labor of love that went into the writing as well as the production. Third Eye have created their own brand of prog metal while drawing influences of Beyond Twilight, Mercyful Fate, Psychotic Waltz, and Pagans Mind. To describe the overall sound of the album I would call it cinematic, dynamic, and powerful. Legendary vocalist Per Johansson definately gives Third Eye that edge of twisted melodies and power to every song. The entire album is a headtrip and a journey into the mind taking the listener on a sonic ride of twists and turns. While every song is equally impressive the songs that are totally kicking my ass at this time are the title track "Recipe For Disaster", a very demented and progressive song with a lot of passion and attitude. Another fave of mine is the melancholic yet beautifully haunting "Six Feet Under" as well as "Darkness Into Dawn" which gives me chills and to my ears has the best chorus I have ever heard but is side by side to my ears with "The Sacred And The Profane" which is another stand out tune as well. The highlight of the album is the epic track "The Psychiatrist" which times in at nearly 11 minutes and shows off all colors of the album in one. The bottom line is Third Eye "Recipe For Disaster" is a 10 dimensional masterpiece with a 100% original approach that re-defines the progressive metal genre. In 4 words.. POWERFUL, HAUNTING, BEAUTIFUL, and DEMENTED. We welcome with open ears the worlds first schizophrenic prog metal album. This album is guaranteed to make a huge impact in the metal community and I am sure this is only the beginning of what is to come. Get ready for a journey into the reccesses of your mind, simply brilliant!. Buy or go insane! Rating: 10/10.