This Turinese band has a name that's really comfortable to speak about, in the first place. It's something like 'fire', twilight', 'divine' or don't know what else. In an Italian label - Heart Of Steel Records - this seems to be their debut CD (some other source refers to another album back in 2003 - dunno...) and whoever's familiar with the Heavy/Power Metal style of Italian bands shall fast get a draft picture of IVORY's patterns. This is partially true, to my ears.
The cover artwork - dressed in excellent colors - makes up a good atmosphere for something heavy yet melodic and 'traveling'. Indeed, in something more than 40 minutes of music we can see an approach by the band standing one foot to the Italian Metal (post-80s) tradition plus mixing things up with their own skills/identity. There's lots of melodies and lyricism in the songlist, with ethereal keyboards providing an extra airy touch. If you believe you'll deal with only double-bass high-speed Euro Metal this is not the whole case here. Of course there's the time that things get too typical (RHAPSODY, LABYRINTH, ATHENA etc), even for the genre's standards, but at other times there's a more wandering atmosphere.
That is due - in my opinion - to two crucial factors. First, the guitar themes are rather-well worked and do not seem that keen on the classic instrumentation, something that has stamped the Italian Metal scene. The leads are romantic here and 'classic Metal' there, intermixing different worlds while seeing up a distinct will for good work and no 'prog Metal' hedonism. The vocals are quite interesting, to expand, with a narrative approach at times, with clear throat work and some classic Rock elements deriving as such when the songs asks so - the music can go '70s' at that point(s), too. Some melancholy can be witnessed in more mild parts while faster stuff seems more ordinary in expression.
The production could be more solid, to be honest. In more wild parts, specifically, the sound is quite pale omitting from the tunes' dynamics. The vocals could be a little less dry here and there and the keys parts could have been pressed in the background at times, in order not to cut off much of the savage attitude partially needed. On the other hand, all these are matters of budget too, so there's no certain point chattin' furthermore.
To sum it up, Time For Revenge shall be of interest for Italian/European melodic Power Metal fans that need something enough different from the typical stuff flooding the last years. IVORY worked hard and aim more on the melodies and less on the pounding in their metallic motive. This is a good album, a good one, for fans of the genre.