Metal Message (Germany) - 10/10
With its musical Qualitätsmischung is this talentierte Quintett not only in its homeland Taiwan überaus successful. Now Kessier wait, Jax, Simon, Lucas and Sopransängerin Pay in used creative Stärke with their third album. Again this fernöstlichen Könner with their überzeugen itself from Heavy, Power, Speed, Gothic and Dark Metal building up ...

Speed Of Light (Slovakia) - 10/10
SERAPHIM from Taipei are quiet creative definitely. Because they release new CD every year and it's longer than a hour! It guilts also for the newcomer called "Ai". "Ai" doesn't means Artificial Intelligence but the chinese expression for "love". The CD adorns perfect cover... In the band came to line-up change. The guitarist Evil Dan was replaced by Lucas...

Sonny's Rock & Metal Heaven(Germany) - 10/10
SERAPHIM zum Dritten. Wie es bei der taiwanesischen Band seit ihrem Debüt "The Soul That Never Dies" (2001) mittlerweile schon Tradition ist, kommt ein Jahr vor dem jeweiligen englischsprachigen Release zuerst das Album in ihrer chinesischen Muttersprache zu Veröffentlichungsehren. Auch beim neuen Album "Ai" weicht das Quintett keinen...

Piece Of Metal (Spain) - 9.5 /10
"Fantastic melodic power metal album, coming from Taiwan and third of this spanish Arise's good band. They will surprise more than one with this "Ai" (love in chinese). In my fortunate hands I've got the chinese edition of the album, which attracted me more (the english versión is about to be released). Far from being the typical anecdotic group just...

Concrete Web (Belgium) - 95 /100
Just before leaving for a Spanish vacation with the family, I was given this very nice (and extremely lengthy) CD by this Taiwanese quintet, who are up to their 3rd longplayer in just as many years (2002's "The Soul That Never Dies" & last year's "The Equal Spirit" preceding). With mixing for this having been done at the infamous Swedish Studio Fredman...

Metal Storm (Estonia) - 9.5 /10
Seraphim is no longer one of those weird bands nobody knows, is no longer the valuable collectors-item Metal Cd in your shelf because they’re hailing from Taiwan, not anymore, after only 3 albums, Seraphim are a renamed act, and definitively the band that makes Taiwan figure in the Metal map. Beside that, they’re really hard workers...

Obliveon (Germany) - 9/10
Yes, there is metal in Taiwan! And what kind of metal! It`s really true guys, this album is absolutely great! Seraphim is a five-piece from this little island near China and if you have prejudices against bands from asia or prefer dull black metal or brainless pop music you should stop reading now. But if you like Nightwish you should invest ...

Metal Temple (Greece)
I have to admit I am very happy right now. As I was surfing on the internet I found out a Taiwanese Power Metal act that I’ve never ever heard before and now I realize what I was missing for the last 3 years.Before you start wondering if there is a Metal scene in the Eastern Asia let me introduce to you this really amazing band. A band that I ...

Brighteyes (Germany)
Aus Taiwan landen nicht nur Computer oder andere technische Geräte auf den deutschen Tischen, nein, die Metal-Band SERAPHIM bringt ihr drittes Studioalbum in die Läden. Mit den bisherigen beiden Alben konnten SERAPHIM auch hierzulande schon für beachtliche Resonanzen in den Medien sorgen und mit „Ai“ wird sich dies weiter positiv ...

Heavy Metal Universe (France) - 5/6
Most of NIGHTWISH-like symphonic heavy speed metal fans who like lyrical female voices would surely have discovered SERAPHIM with their previous record (The Equal Spirit) in 2002. Well, since 2001 -release date of their too-unknown first album called "The Soul That Never Dies"- the Taïwanese band's still recording excellent and wonderful ...

Mindview mag (Belgium)
Imangine that Luca Turilli (Rhapsody), Tarja (Nightwish) and Dani (Cradle Of Filth) record an album together. It could be something that Taiwaness Seraphim present on their second album. Their, self called, °•operistic heavy/power metal°¶ includes all pieces of a upcoming masterpiece. The fabulous musical progressive powermetal arrangements...

Metal Maidens (The Netherlands) - 10/10
SERAPHIM hails from Taiwan and they consist of Pay on vocals, Kessier on guitar, Jax on bass and vocals, ?Evil? Dan on guitar and Simon on drums. Guest musician is Maggie on keyboards. The additional players on the album are Pay, Chala, Deen and Jimmy Sun on keyboards, Chun Chen on clarinet, Du Kuan Chang on violin, Hong Hsang Chu...

Metalkings.com (Russia) - 5/5
This second album by the already familiar Taiwanese masters of fast jig-saw guitars Seraphim. One year of hard labor did not go in vein. The material on the album has a lot more dimensions and diversity to it. Although it still has to be said that the fast numbers are still much more interesting than the mid-tempo ones. The musicians do not...

Tombstone (Greece) - 9/10
This is the second album of this Taiwanese band I get to listen and once more I am impressed. This time they have gone for a more classic power metal sound and style. The female vocals are still dominating the songs and the addition of male brutal vocals enhances their sound a lot. They have many things in common with early Nightwish but they...

The Royal Sasquatch (USA) - 9/10
Yeah, you heard me. Power metal from Taiwan. Symphonic power metal, sort of like Nightwish, but there's still several differences. First of all, their singer's voice is not as high as Tarja's. Also, the songs are longer, more progressive, and feature guitar solos a lot more. This CD is over 70 minutes long with only 11 songs (and an outro), and ...

Obliveon (Germany) - 9/10
Den dritten und aktuellen Output “Ai” der Taiwanesen Seraphim hatte ich im letzten Jahr auf unseren Import-Seiten regelrecht abgefeiert, muss aber im Nachhinein gestehen, dass die vergebenen 9 Punkte viel zu tief gegriffen waren. 10 Punkte wären für dieses Hammeralbum angemessen gewesen.Anyway, mit „The Soul That Never Dies“ möchte...

Adipocere.free.fr (France) - 17,5/20
Je me suis bien fait avoir encore une fois ! Je m'explique. Quand j'ai vu la pochette de ce CD, je me suis dit : "Tiens, un groupe de Gothic Metal". Et en regardant le livret et en constatant que le chant etait partage entre le bassiste et une chanteuse, cela confortait ma premiere impression : "Encore un groupe de Gothic avec un mec qui a une ...

Brighteyes (Germany) - 11/13
Diese höchst interessante Band legt mir aus dem fernen Taiwan ihr Debutalbum in meinen CD-Player. Obwohl der Gesang über weite Strecken nach Nightwish bzw. Tarja klingt, so ist dies eher als Kompliment zu sehen. Musikalisch gehen die elf Kompositionen grob in Richtung Gothic bzw. Speed Metal mit schönem Frauengesang und Gesangsduellen ...

Metalkings.com (Russia) - 4/5
Yes, there are still girls in Taiwan, who could catch a spitfire dragon in midair, sing in the National Opera, and shine as a rock star - all in one. Pay - the lead singer of Seraphim - is exactly the girl - fragile, miniature, she boasts an entirely brilliant coloratura soprano. Just as her Finnish colleague Tarja Turunen she also studies vocals in Germany and...

Metal Kngdom (Chile) - 8.3/10
For someone that have not had the luck to listen in fulness to Seraphim; would be able to think that it treats only of a copy "Made In Taiwan" of the Finns of Nightwish, well, it is doubtless the link with Nightwish and Finland, the musical approach, obviously the "Pay" voice and of course in be mastered in Finnvox are sufficient motives...