Nu.Clear.Dawn - Poem of a Knight - The Official Website

An exclusive interview with WHAT`S ON (15/Aug/2005)
Music-Extreme review (6/April/2005)
"The Vault" magazine review from Serbia (14/Sep/2004)
Nuclear appearance in Greece magazine "Rock On" (14/Sep/2004)
Defenders of Steel review (6/Sep/2004)
Exclusive Nu.Clear.Dawn interview on Dream T.V. (9/July/2004)
Bayate Magazine features "Poem of a Knight" (18/June/2004)
Lelahel Metal reviews "Poem of a Knight" (17/March/2004)
Poem of a Knight reviewed in Greece (24/Feb/2004)
Interview with Nu.Clear.Dawn (17/Feb/2004)
Nu.Clear.Dawn page in Tartarian Desire WebZine (3/Jan/2004)
Poem of a Knight review in The Metal Observer (Germany) (27/Oct/2003)
Strutter 'zine review of Poem of a Knight in The Netherlands (12/Oct/2003)
Another review for "Poem of a Knight" in www.metalstorm.ee (9/Oct/2003)
Nu.Clear.Dawn featured in Mind Vision, Belgium's metal magazine (27/Aug/2003)
"Poem of a Knight" reviewed in Metal-Archives (18/Aug/2003)
Nu.Clear.Dawn featured in "Bayate Magazine" (19/Dec./2002)

- An exclusive interview with WHAT`S ON (15/Aug/2005)
Nu.Clear.Dawn had an exclusive interview in Damascus with a local
magazine publishing in English.
It includes 3 great pages of interview with Aram and Tarek, discussing the circumstances of Nu.Clear.Dawn during all the concerts through the years, explaining the concept of the album and how the dream came true.
note: the magazine includes a poster for the band.

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Music-Extreme review (added 6/April/2005)
New review found in Music-Extreme site...

This is really melodic heavy/ power metal full of keyboards and interesting arrangements that have an epic quality in them. I mean, the melodies are essential in Nuclear Dawn´s music and they have a classical and epic feeling when combined with heavier parts. There is virtuosism in order to achieve great results and that is evident specially on the guitar solos. The singer reminded in some places to Joe Lynn Turner or to Marc Boals which is a good mix between melody and power. He has a good vocal registry for this type of music. The sound is a little bit raw for this style of music, specially in the drums that sound a little bit back in the mix and I think that maybe with a better mix the band can sound even more powerful. Thumbs up for the rhythm section that is extremely tight and well rehearsed and that can be heard through all the album. This is what I call a good heavy/power metal release.

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"The Vault" magazine review from Serbia (added 14/Sep/2004)
The Vault magazine from Serbia writes a review about "Poem of a Knight". The Issue is going to be released later this year.

The Vault Magazine "Poem of a Knight" review - rated 8.5 / 10

This past period between no. 4/5 and no. 6 issues of The Vault has been the time of my greatest explorations in underground metal, but this time I was paying much more attention to the geographical position of the bands and scenes. During one such research I was able to discover the whole range of bands from the Arab world. Amongst them was the Syrian quintet under the name of Nu.Clear.Dawn. I really had no information about any of the bands from the Arab countries, be it Northern Africa or Middle East, thus not knowing what to expect. Still, these bands from which I didn’t know what to expect never seemed to disappoint me, contrarily to the ones in which I had high expectations. The guys from Aleppo play a rather convincing version of progressive metal. In some things they don’t differ from the rest of progressive metal world. Most songs are rather long, as it seems it became some sort of postulate in the realm of progressive. Most times bands don’t know exactly how to use this time and make compositions that bore you to hell. I prefer the prog. bands that, with all the complex compositions and diverse elements, still have the fluent music that will grab your attention and wouldn’t let go until the end. Nu.Clear.Dawn is one such band. It’s consisted of very good musicians, guys that studied well all the different styles they incorporate in their music, be it classic or metal. There are lots of classical melodies, particularly played by keyboards which are more than an equal instrument in the final outcome. They get full exposure when they play solos, taking over the role of the second guitar, and thanks to keyboard player’s skills it sounds quite OK. And the singer… man, this guy (Amr Rifai) rips and could be compared with any more known singer from the genre and beyond. The overall sound is more than good. It was all recorded, mixed and produced without any notable omissions or glitches. It’s just pity it loses on intensity coming towards the end, but doesn’t ruin the impression. Hearing entire “Poem Of A Knight” you won’t get some groundbreaking album, but this is one hell of an album standing on its own and surely surpasses most of the progressive albums released lately. Their exotic origin will most likely give them advantage over their peers from all around the world, where such bands are more than common thing, but could be counted as disadvantage as well because it’ll take them twice as much work to get the proper exposure and recognition. I wish them all the best, because they deserve at least an equal spot as Symphony X if not more, as “Poem Of A Knight” is way better than their last album.

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Nuclear appearance in Greece magazine "Rock On" (added 14/Sep/2004)
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Thanks to Georges Sidoropoulos for sending us the page!

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Defenders of Steel review (added 6/Sep/2004)
Italy's biggest metal webzine reviews "Poem of a Knight" at www.defendersofsteel.net

Read the Review Here (Italian version) English version coming soon

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Exclusive Nu.Clear.Dawn interview on Dream T.V (added 9/July/2004)
After the great success of Nu.Clear.Dawn show in Rock The Nations open air metal festival in Istanbul Turkey on 4th of July 2004 the band had a fast interview with the Turkish channel Dream T.V. who also taped down the performance on video. Click Here to watch
The show and interview will be broadcasted on Dream T.V. within the program name "Yuxexes" on Wednesday 14th or 21th of July 2004

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Bayate Magazine features "Poem of a Knight" (18/June/2004)
Bayate musicians magazine / Ormuz Group presents Nu.Clear.Dawn with a nice and short review.

Bayate is a newsletter published by an organism of resources and formation on actual music in the Near and Middle-East. This organism have been created in the workframe of OrMuz project, initiated and led by A.M.I. Centre de Développement pour les Musiques Actuelles based at la Friche Belle de Mai Marseille, France

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Lelahel Metal reviews "Poem of a Knight" (17/March/2004)
The biggest Algerian Metal Web'zine reviewed "Poem of a Knight" in www.lelahelmetal.com

Read the Review here

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Poem of a Knight reviewed in Greece (24/Feb/2004)
Greece reviews "Poem of a Knight" in www.thetempleofmetal.gr and a special page added for N.C.D. in the website.

Read the Review here

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Interview with Nu.Clear.Dawn (17/Feb/2004)
Exclusive interview is available online at www.LelahelMetal.com the Algerian Metal Webzine
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Nu.Clear.Dawn page in Tartarean Desire Webzine (3/Jan/2004)

Click Here to view the page
Thanks to the webzine and Zero-Cool

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Poem of a Knight review in The Metal Observer (Germany) (27/Oct/2003)
The Metal Observer in Germany reviews P.O.A.K. and adds Syria to their metal scene country list. thanks to Alex and all at The Metal Observer

Read the full review Here

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Strutter 'Zine review of Poem of a Knight in The Netherlands (12/Oct/2003)
Yet another review rated 8.5 out of 10 in Strutter Magazine in The Netherlands, check out Strutter 'Zine website , or just click to Read the full review here

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Another review for "Poem of a Knight" in www.metalstorm.ee (9/Oct./2003)
Another great review for the album rated 8 out of 10 ....

Middle East countries are nowadays full of good metal bands but the first country that comes to mind is not Syria. Well, Nu.Clear.Dawn is a progressive metal band hailing from this country with their debut album entitled “Poem Of A Knight” and they deserve your full attention.

Read the full review here

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Nu.Clear.Dawn featured in Mind Vision, Belgium's metal magazine (27/Aug/2003)
An article written about Nu.Clear.Dawn , and the debut album of the band "Poem of a Knight" and also about metal in the middle east by a guy called Frederic Diependaele from Belgium who is interested about the metal scene here in the middle east, the article also includes some pics, click on the thumbnails to see the larger version of the magazine.
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"Poem of a Knight" reviewed in Metal-Archives (18/Aug/2003)
Read the review here , Nu.Clear.Dawn would like to thank "the_hunter_slave", and everyone who is helping the band.
thanks a lot !

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Nu.Clear.Dawn featured in "Bayate Magazine" (19/December/2002)
The Bayate Magazine, the OrMuz program and A.M.I group wrote about the upcoming album of Nu.Clear.Dawn , "Poem Of A Knight" in their First and 2nd issues of their monthly magazine which can be found in all of the countries in the Middle East, including Syria Lebanon Jordan Palestine and more.

Thanks to OrMuz A.M.I. and Bayate M.

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