Forgiven – Demo

Forgiven
Demo
1993 (no label)
San Antonio, Texas, USA

Elijah Gomez – Lead vocals
Dave Liscum – Guitars, vocals
Todd Clayton – Bass, tambourine
Carlos Mendizabal – Drums

1. Comfort Zone
2. Jesus in My Soul
3. Don’t Turn Back
4. Waiting for Your Love
5. Thief in the Night
6. Freedom

This is another band from the metal power house of San Antonio, Texas. I am assuming this band has some connections with other San Antonio bands, but I can’t find anything directly right now. They start off sounding a bit more commercial metal than many of the more power metal bands you have heard of from their scene, but they do mix in several power and traditional metal influences as they go along. Even a touch of blues metal. But everything here is heavy metal – not hard rock, not hair metal even. They slow down some songs a bit, but don’t really ever even come close to power ballad territory.