“Cinematic” is a term often used to describe post-rock and other instrumental rock/electronica/metal. A couple of years ago 65DAYSOFSTATIC created a new soundtrack for the sci-fi classic Silent Running, yet it’s their new release, Wild Light, that takes ownership of that term rather than the actual soundtrack. Displaying the confidence that comes from having a deep reserve of inspiration and truck loads of experience, the band lays down it’s position without fuss. This is not an extension of Silent Running, a return to The Fall Of Math, nor a revisiting of One Time For All Time, although there’s only one band that it could be.Continue reading
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Last Chance To Reason – Level 3
Last Chance To Reason is essentially a dead band and Level 3 (Prosthetic Records) represents their final fling. For those new to the band this is the third interactive album that matches to a video game (which I haven’t played) and there’s plenty of game noises thrown in here and there to make sure you don’t forget. It’s progressive technical metal full of bass grooves and chugging, arpeggios and riffs from guitar, driving drums and rather quiet and highly-processed clean vocals sharing with a bit of harsh. There’s a large measure if synth building depth that contrasts with sparse moments and even some well-placed silence.Continue reading
The Safety Fire – Mouth Of Swords
A minute into the opening, title track of Mouth Of Swords (InsideOut), the new album from The Safety Fire, and you’re hit by full and complex layers of progressive metal and rock that reaches back to the ’70s and forward to the future as it takes inspiration from a broad range of themes and styles. Whether it’s chugging riffs or twidly high-pitched dissonant shredding, smooth flowing grooves or erratic rhythms and arpeggios, higher-range vocals or angry shouting, the songs are a conglomeration of many and varied parts.Continue reading