It seems they are able to construct oasis’ and sheer paradise from out of nothing these days in the Dubai and Abu Dubai in the United Arab Emerites. Even with all the war and terrorism coverage western civilaization receive’s the UAE seems to be a peaceful area where commerce and creativity can flourish out of the turbulent desert sands. This includes the progressive metal band Anuryzm.
Not since the Tunisian powerhouse Myrath have I been this impressed with a progressive metal band from the middle east. Their compositions seem to have so many hooks rendering the listener a audio pin cushion. Although they list the bands that influenced them as Pantera, Symphony X,Megadeth, Dream Theater, Opeth, they are so much more than these. You certainly hear their influences, yet Anuryzm do it in their own unique style. To go on record here, they are one of the few progressive metal acts since Pain of Salvation that you can not typecast nor pigeonhole into anyone sub genre in the progressive metal scene.
First they do something really odd and begin the album with a slow eccentric track that can be misconstrued as a power ballad with Mineral. This track has a beautiful way to open up the album and allow for the listener to get comfortable with their own audio experience. Soon after Mineral, they rip right into Full Agonist.
Full Agonist rips into a perfect rhythmic machine between the bass and drums. Then a full all out guitar shred fest joins into the intro. This track reminds of many of the riffs heard on Symphony X’sOdyssey album. It especially echoes shades of Wicked and King of Terrors . Just when the vocal hooks you that way soon comes a full on grunt that beckons Opeth’s Deliverance. Full Agonist is a little taste of what is in store for the duration of the album.
Humanoid opens up and reminds me of Death Angel’s Ultra Violence album meets Pantera’sVulgar Display Of Power . It contains the the thrash metal style of Ultra Violence with a left hook of the vocals from Vulgar Display Of Power. You can truly see the depth and reach of Nadeem Bibby’s vocal range.
Depolarized starts with a beautiful semi acoustic introduction. It then proceeds to pick up with a really heavy handed bass and double kick drum passage done quite effectively by the combination of Rany Battikh – Bass & Imad Dahleh – Drums as a rhythmic collective. Depolarized also contains voice over spoken word portions that remind me of most Dream Theater albums over the course of the last 30 years.
The Challenger has probably the most serious heavy handed intro, of all the tracks on the album. The immediate vocal harmonies in the intro remind me of Judas Preist’s Living After Midnight. John Bakhos – Guitars nails it on this with serious interchangeable time signatures going in and out of 4/4 rhythms to finger tapping shred work that reminds me of early Steve Hackette riffs in the prog era of Genesis.
Oceans Apart paints a beautiful acoustic bridge as it is at the half way point on the album. It is also the only instrumental on the album. Jay Jahed – Synth puts on a keyboard clinic on Oceans Apart giving the listener a beautiful yet subtle atmosphere.
All Is Not For All the title track serves as the utility track. With a killer power opening of growl vocals on top of a progressive thrash passage, All Is Not For All most definitely allows you to hear the band as a collective in the whole of their individual parts and instruments. Great time signatures combined with beauty atmospheric harmonies on the ivory keyboards.
199x starts out with a thunderous intro before the guitars fall within the background. 199x is one of those beastly tracks with big thunderous rhythm sections and actual shredding. This also has a wicked background distorted fuzzy vibe on the keyboards with something that seems like a lost art nowadays. That lost art being a actual guitar solo. This track also contains elements of Opeth’s last two albums Heritage and Pale Communion crossed with vocal elements of Hansi Kusch of BlindGuardian.
Impermanence begins with a eerie passage on the keyboards before hitting the clutch and transmission time signature wise with a galloping Iron Maiden type of progression. Impermanence is relentless with the band firing its full and true arsenal of talent. The growl vocals have elements that remind me of Amon Amarth mixed with Symphony X and a little of Seiges Even with the instrumental portions.
Perispirit contains a wonderful semi acoustical opening with warm vocal melodies. Soon after the instrumental section hooks you in with every section and second. Then the vocals are as if taking the leash of a beast. The vocals going in and out between growls that are damn near black metal to cleaner more conventional vocals. As far as the arrangement of tracks is concerned, Perispirit is could not be a more perfect track to close out this masterpiece.
Listening to this All Is Not For All was my introduction to Anuryzm . It was a damn good and solid introduction. It makes you hunger and thirst for more. All Is Not For All has a wonderful vibe about it where you are now in anticipation to hear it in a live setting. Trust me I am not kissing anyones ass here. I am giving this a 5/5 for the skillful mastery and the overall arrangement of the tracks as they lay on the album.
After the TREMENDOUS SUCCESS of the ALBUM SALES of CORVUS I & II, our FAVORITE & LOVABLE GUITARIST and FOUNDER, COLIN TENCH & CO. would like to express their GRATITUDE, with their UNUSUAL & KIND GESTURE.
HERE’S A FEW WORDS, FROM COLIN HIMSELF:
” This is a complete digital album release, on sale at all the usual outlets but we are are not fans of re-mastering, re-jigging or remixing an album and asking for money from fans, for a repeat of anything they already bought. We decided from the outset, to give this album to all previous buyers of any Corvus Stone album, FREE, in digital format. We will hunt them down, tho’ we are unlikely to find them all but will advertise this fact everywhere that will allow us to. In reality, this album has a lot of new material. ”
” We did this fast without anybody expecting it but don’t imagine we threw some music together. This was done the same as we always do. The fun is in the details! Would you like this as a bonus (Free) album? There is still time! ”
FOR MORE DETAILS & HOW THIS ALBUM WENT INTO PRODUCTION, & TO PRE-ORDER THIS MASTERPIECE, FOR ONLY $10. ( Plus, get the NEW RELEASE ” BRAND NEW DAY, ” for FREE, ) CLICK ONTO THIS LINK: http://corvusstone.bandcamp.com/album/corvus-stone-unscrewed
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, WATCH THIS VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gju6rNQlm0k
It brings to our attention that one of BILLY SHERWOOD’S bandmate and ASPIRING MUSICIAN, KRISTIANLOVE, is in need for LIFE – SAVING CANCER SURGERY, however, she has no health insurance…..
HERE’S HER MESSAGE:
” Hi, my name is Kristian Love (aka Kristy Love) im reaching out to you because you’re either an associate or a follower of my bandmate “Billy Sherwood”. We were in a project called “Emote” that never got to go as far as it should, unfortunely it was due to health reasons on my behalf. “ ” I was diagnosed with a DNET tumor on the frontal left lobe of my brain, its still small and very much treatable with a miminally invasive approach. The doctors told me I have caught it at a very delicate time. So they can completely remove the tumor and I would go back to normal, without any brain damage. Which is very important because I want to continue to contribute my talents in music and be able to enjoy motherhood with my son who just turned 1 years old this late June. My surgery will cost approximately 250k and I only have $10 to get me through the rest of the week. Though I am considered a somewhat “Well Known Artist”
” I am living the life of a broke street musician. I have a fundraiser show going on in my hometown Palmdale, California, August 15th &16th which will bring in a few hundred dollars. Maybe. My goal right now is to turn it into a tour “Let Love Live”. We have all been through the horrendous battle with loved ones fighting cancer, they either win the battle and have bills to pay for the rest of their lives.. Or they lose the battle and their family is left with grief and stacked medical bills. “
” My surgery is an expensive but life saving procedure.. But what will my quality of life be if I am in debt for the rest of my life? Im hoping to do well with this tour idea and to turn it into a yearly event to help others who are also in financial need because of cancer. If we can’t find a real cure for cancer that’s approved by the FDA then lets at least help our own people and ease their suffering..”
AFTER HER RECOVERY FROM SURGERY, KRISTIAN IS LOOKING FOR YOU:
” Looking for bands all across the USA that want to get out and play!! You can tour along or just play in your hometown/city. This is a never done before cause/benefit show and im looking for great bands to get involved in my fundraiser to litteraly save my life. Help me save myself! Let’s take this across the country. Pm me for more details. Please share. ” AFTER I’VE HEARD HER MUSIC SAMPLES, THIS WOMAN HAD EXCEED COURTNEY LOVE & BROUGHT BACK THE TRUE SOUND OF THE 90s!
TO HEAR HER MUSIC, CLICK ONTO HER REVERBNATION LINK:
After a lengthy absence Zone Six have returned with Love Monster. Zone Six are part of a community of bands that ‘play it on the fly’ meaning improvised. Progressive Psychedelic Improvised music is prog rock’s best kept secret. What do I mean by ‘improvised’ ? A band basically gets together and has a jam session where they just play. This style of prog rock requires a lot of trust. Typically the bands are not sitting at a easel with any or very little staff paper writing notes like most bands would. This requires a lot more trust among band members as to where to follow one time signature or passage to another. Trust to also follow the lead with your instrument and when to hang back.
For the better part of 18 years Zone Six have been among one of the pioneers of this style of free form jam band improvised progressive rock. They are right up there sharing the top of the ladder with bands like Oresund Space Collective, Tribe of Cro, Hydria Spacefolk to name a few.
Love Monster may be only be 4 tracks long, however it is still a masterpiece. The keyboards are not only keyboards, they serve as modern day synth’s to retro mellotron and hammond organs. The keyboards are like a second backbone along with the drums. The title track Love Monster opens with a wicked fuzzy bass and deep bass drums that appear to be detuned on purpose to give it an old school retro FM radio experience.
The Insight the second track on the album begins with a real trippy effect. The synth is as if they took a old quadraphonic recording and remastered it on 5.1 surround sound without losing the old school quadraphonic effect. This is such a deep rhythmic track it gives you the impression that even the guitar is played through a bass amp.
By time you get to the third track Acidic it is as the title sounds. It sounds like a complete LSD trip with synths rotating in one hemisphere of the brain in your headset while the deep rhythmic section of the fuzzy bass and drums are going the other way round the other half hemisphere in your headset. Needless to say the band achieves 20 minutes of fury and sound in only under 9 minutes on Acidic
By time you get to the fourth and final track Cosmogyal you get a overview of some elements you encountered in the first three tracks. You get the trippy atmospheric synths, deep detuned psychedelic guitars and a tightly lock step and toe rhythm section between the fuzzy bass and drums. The band also packages wicked 70’s style time signatures with long solos and deep atmospheric effects.
As much as I enjoyed the trip or journey on this album I wish it had been a little longer. It is more of a EP than LP. That is why I can only give it a 4/5.
PROG FANS, REJOICE, for UNIFIED PAST will RETURN, with THEIR LEGACY, of REVALITIZING MUSIC!
AND NOW, A FEW WORDS FROM THE BAND:
” We are happy to announce the continuation of our cooperation with this great band – ‘Unified Past’ !! ”
” Today, premier show Ed Unitsky’s new artwork for cover, coming soon album ‘Shifting the Equilibrium’!!….” ” 6 Power progressive songs (56 minutes) that feature the addition of vocalist Phil Naro to the band. The release promises to be our strongest yet. The music is in the production stage with a target date of late summer / early fall…..”
Label : Immrama Records Release Year : 2015 Country : United Kingdom Genre : Progressive/Symphonic/Celtic /Metal
Band Members Haley Griffiths – Lead Vocals Enrico Pinna- Lead Guitar/Vocals Jimmy Pallagrosi –Drums Ian Jones –Bass/Keyboards/Guitars Cagri Tozluoglu – Keyboards
Over the last 50 years we have seen our share of female fronted bands in pop, metal, and other genres of music as a whole. However female fronted bands in straight up progressive rock are scarce and rare. When we think of women in progesssive rock we remember the pioneers of Renate Knaupf Amon Duul ii , Annie Halsam The Renaissance even Psychadelia’s first ever Diva Grace Slick Jefferson Airplane/Starship . Between 2000- 2015 their seems to be a resurgence of women returning to the progressive rock not just metal. The fabulous talents that come to mind to name a few are Heather Findley ex-MostlyAutumn/Ayreon/Solo, Christina Booth Magenta , Judith Rijnveld of Kingfisher Sky even LanaLane. This crop of women are our new Peter Gabriels, Phil Collins, Jon Andersons and Jon Wetton. Walking a razors edge and fine line between progressive rock to hard rock, women and their bands still develop the same complexed time signatures and epics and Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, etc . Karnataka’s Hayley Griffiths certainly has gracefully walked into this pantheon of talent and creativity. Accompanying Haley is a band that I feel are one third Kansas, another third IONA, and a final third of Mostly Autumn. Founded by bassist and multi instrumentalist Ian Jones back in 1997, the band is rounded out with the talents and likes of Enrico Pinna (Guitars, vocals) Cagri Tozluoglu (Keyboards) Jimmy Pallagrosi , Drums, Karnataka mixes a blend of world and celtic influences with hard and progressive rock for a distinctive sound.
Road To Cairo This track is one of the most stand out tracks on the album. With a wicked time signature backed by an Arabic scale, the band takes us on a journey much like one Ritchie Blackmore did 40 years early in Rainbow with Stargazer.
Because Of You This is probably the most radio friendly track on the album. Opening with a a lush piano intro and soon progressing within seconds to a symphonic cacaphony of bliss. Lush strings interwining like a symphonic web. It serves as a prog rock ballad with a retrospective message. The
Poison Ivy A song of pain and agony. Haley’s voice gets really aggressive on this track. It is definitely sung with conviction with the band in the background as a perfect complament on key spot on. This one opens up with a sweet symphonic intro. There is a choir effect in and out at many times that with the keyboards carries this track.
Forbidden Dreams Opens up with a haunting piano line and soon becomes enhanced with cymbals and light percussive elements. This is one of the more emotional tracks on the album both instrumenatally and lyrically. It is written with such great emotion it is as if one of the band members had a personal experience that inspired Forbidden Dreams.
Borderline One of the darker and heavier tracks on Secrets Of Angels, this begins with a heavy darker and brooding intro before going to a straight away progressive hard rock composition yet with angelic vocals for a haunting and emotional listening experience.
Fairytale Lies Fairytale Lies is definitely the most personal introspective track on the album. It is one of those tracks that if it were a video Haley would be sitting at a piano with the rest of that band around her. The message is timeless to anyone who had their hopes set on a particular thing that never came to fruition.
Feels Like Home Serene symphonic and poetic justice gives way to a upbeat encouraging track. At the 2:00 mark kicks into a straight up rock track with the heavier guitar taking over for the softer piano intro. A track of coming home and the love that exists when you do. The emotional guitar solo serves as a wonderful bridge towards the end. Beautiful vocal backing tracks ovedubbed just sweeten the pot on this one.
Secrets Of Angels The title track of the album. The intro has a very heavy celtic old world vibe. On top of Haley’s beautiful voice it can be easy to confuse it with a Celtic Woman soundtrack. Karnataka have certainly excuted all fascets of Haley’s voice with a strong lead vocal mixed with wonderful backing overdubs. At about the 4:00 mark it takes off like a beautiful film score with the drums, bass and guitars all coming on in union preapring you for this 20:04 epic journey. The rest of this track goes in from time celtic old world time signatures fashioned by Mostly Autumn crossed with Magenta and IONA with different choral down towns and explosive celtic rock jams. This will most definitely find its place as a staple in live setlists. At the end of the day I give this album 4/5.
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