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Equilibria is the fourth album from Ukraine's Sunrise, a band I'd never heard of before it landed in my review queue. They've been around since 2003 and that makes sense as the power metal they play taps into a lot of recognizable influences. Sonata Arctica is probably the biggest (and Sunrise unsurprisingly covered "Black Sheep" for a tribute album in 2015) with "We Are the Fire" possessing the double-kick speed and Kakko-esque vocal acrobatics of early Sonata Arctica while "The Shadow" sounds more like the Stones Grow Her Name or Pariah's Child era with a more modest tempo and introspective lyrics. "Unbroken Dreams" has the immediacy of Axenstar and on "The Bridge Across Infinity" the vocal lines have the same flamboyant vocal lines of Serenity's Georg Neuhauser. It would be easy to write this off as a copycat band, but their songwriting and performances are distinctive enough that the influences never stray too close to plagiarism. What that means is that if you like early millennium power metal, Equilibria is going to sound just fine.