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Artist: Eyefear |
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With the European’s and the US dominating the Power Metal and Prog Metal scene at the moment, it's nice to get an album from an Australian based Progressive Power Metal band for a change. These Antipodean’s are set to put Australia on the map as far a the whole Power Metal genre goes with their third release ‘A World Full Of Grey’, an album which follows their previous two albums ‘9 Elements of Inner Vision’ and ‘Edge of Innocence’. This album sees the band taking their own vision of the whole Progressive Power Metal sound to the next level with some mighty fine song writing and musicianship. The band like all bands nowadays have had more than their fair share of line-up changes, but the nucleus of the band Con Papazoglou, Zain Kimmie and Rob Gorham have always had faith in the band and knew that the right line-up was just around the corner, and with this new opus and line-up the band have the world at their feet. The album gets underway with ‘Searching For Forgiveness’, with its huge keyboards and streaming guitars this one makes you sit up and take notice from the off and when vocalist Danny Cecati comes in, the sheer power of Eyefear is unleashed as Cecati brings out the best in the band. This is pure Progressive Power Metal at its finest with some outstanding guitars from Con Papazoglou and the extraordinary keyboards of Sammy Giacotto putting the icing on the cake. The band have a huge sound that is carried throughout the album as things continue with the title track ‘A World Full of Grey’, another riff filled spectacle with its pulsating rhythm section of Gorham and Kimmie laying down the solid bed for the rest of the band to build upon and with the superb vocals of Cecati bringing life into every song, things just get better and better as each track unfolds. The masterclass in the Prog Power Metal continues with one of my favourite tracks off the album the massive ‘Changes’, this is the band at their best with huge guitars, a monster keyboard sound and a rhythm section to die for, this capped off with the vocal prowess of Cecati make this track of the album for me as it goes from high octane Metal to Melodic Metal in the blink of an eye. The keyboards of Giacotto are really brought to the fray on the excellent ‘Lost Within’ these combined with the huge drums of Kimmie and the relentless splendour of Gorham’s bass on this monster. This is before the band brings it down just a touch with ‘Moments’, which acts as the intro into the more melodic metal tones of ‘The Eyes Tell No Lies’, with Cecati showing the full range of his vocals on this one as he goes from the more gentler tones to the all out metal. Things pick up once more with the driving metal of ‘Whispers Of The Soul’ before the album crosses over to another dimension with the ethereal tones of ‘Haunted Memories’. ‘Breathe Again’ carries on that ghostly almost symphonic tone with Papazoglou showing his fret skills once more and the ever present keyboards of Giacotto bringing the whole thing together, with Kimmie’s drum work and Gorham’s heady bass all tightly wrapped in Cecati’ powerhouse vocals. The
album close as it began with ‘Searching For Forgiveness’, but this
time it’s the radio edit version which cuts off nearly three minutes
of the original track which is still a good track, but I actually prefer
the seven minute eleven second version with all its grandiose tones. |
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