FALLLEN LEAVES & DEAD SPARROWS is out today 28.3 IN EUROPE! Review by Markus Rutten on German Sounds2Move - page: sounds2move.de/Plattenkritiken/amoral_fallenleavesdeadsparrows.htm Translated by a fan: The Finns don´t torture us with long intro or other preliminaries on Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows because they go directly into pleasure, and On the other Side Pt.1 greets us immediately with doubled guitar harmonies and dispassionate atmosphere and brings to mind the current Queensryche album (No-Tate-Show). The fact that only two songs are less than six and a half minutes, underlines the prog approach, wherein one of the shorter songs is a sleek, understated acoustic ballad Blueprints , while the other swift? No Familiar Faces is actually one of the highlights on the album. The guitars let us revive the modern melodic death - moments of the previous albums again and the hooks thrown do that predicate hit single perfect. Prolong a Stay is stunning from the beginning and provides couple of smooth blast beats (!), and sets the actual superior tone to the album. This is remarkable while the band and label were announced in advance to be this time more a classic rock- and progressive band. Sure, some way one can find such influences, but that goes for pretty much every band on the planet. This is not to be understood as a criticism, but rather as an invitation to more courage to own versatility and competence. Because not only the players of Amoral need to get their heads up, but also the frontman Ari Koivunen (whose vocals were produced by Marco Hietala, who has also for years had under his wings ao. Tomi Joutsen from Amorphis) has no need to imitate some old heroes. The band who connects so playful and self- progressive metal with newer Gothenburg School and also leaves room for power metal moments and acoustic parts and and gets a contemporary sound to the whole, must not hide its light under a bushel. Ok, perhaps instrumental The Storm arrives with its approximately seven minutes might be a bit too much of that good, but otherwise the Finns and their sixth studio album is really little to be blamed. This album will find its audience.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:42:43 +0000
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