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Artist: Triosphere |
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Hailing from Trondiem Norway, female fronted Triosphere return with their second album 'A Road Less Traveled', recorded in the home town and mixed by Tommy Hansen in Jailhouse Studio (Denmark). The album itself is a real powerhouse opus with stirring guitar work from Marius Silver Bergesen and T.O Bybert, a full on rhythm section with Orjan Aare Jorgensen on drums and a superb vocal courtesy of Ida Haukland who also handles bass duties. There is an air of anticipation surrounding this start to the album with the intro 'Ignition', you're given a short but impressive introduction into what this band can achieve in a short two minute burst. A rampaging drum assault, a powerhouse bass and the twin guitars soaring and shredding, and this is only the intro. Well does the rest of the album live up to what was in the intro, well quite simply Yes!. As the opener proper 'Driven' shows in spades, the full force of the guitar due gets this one underway and it isn't long before the bass and drums join the party, but its when the final piece of the jigsaw those fantastic vocals of Haukland come in to the mix that you realize that Triosphere have the goods to take on the big boys in the metal fraternity. After the tremendous start things start to settle down to a more traditional metal vibe with the superb 'Human Condition', again riffs are flying and the powerhouse drumming of Orjan Aare Jorgensen are the main foundations for the song, and Hauklands Pesch styled vocals are the icing on the cake. Keeping the metal going is the fantastic 'Death Of Jane Doe' and the thumping 'Marionette', then it's the phenomenal title track 'The Road Less Traveled', this is not an as full on metal track like what has gone before, but this shows that Haukland has the pipes to bring the softer side of metal without losing the power, a real classic in the making here. I was saying how Haukland's vocals are equally good in whatever range and now with the metal ballad 'The Anger And The Silent Remorse', she goes one better, and for me this is one of her finest moments on the album. The gentle side of metal is carried on into one of my favourite tracks off the album 'watcher', this is modern heavy metal at its best, no gruff growls or over enthusiastic guitars, just METAL you want to raise the horns and salute to. It's all systems go as the tempo is picked up once more with the double kick assault on 'Twenty One' and the guitar fuelled splendor of 'Worlds Apart', two metal titans both different in structure but metal through and through. The band show they aren't afraid to mix things up a bit as they bring in a more melodic metal feel with the wonderful 'The Last Haven', then topping the album off in great style with the closer 'Echoes'. The album is sure to send waves of delight around the metal world and will show that Triosphere are heading for superstar metal status with this release, definitely a band to watch out for in the remainder of 2010 and into 2011. |
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Ignition |
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