SHELLS

17 years, it's becoming the current fashion for more or less old bands to reform and release a new album with the facilities of pocket home studios. In hard, it's almost commonplace, in prog I just finished a review of a band that's coming out of musical hibernation after 38 years! In short, for EVERON it's a little different because they're quite young, their first album dates from 1993; the difference is also above all that they didn't make a facsimile of their last albums to please their fans, no, they simply made the task more difficult by offering an evolving sound, stronger, more punchy, more progressive. Tracks like 'No Embrace', 'Shells' the eponymous title or 'Guilty as Charged' send heavy prog pâté with a 2020 sauce, the sound is more complex; but they knew how to embellish the finale with the melodic sweetness 'Children of the Earth', with the super short but overboosted 'OCD', to believe that they had taken good musical drugs; but their merit is to have created this marvelous 'Flesh' of almost a quarter of an hour which takes up everything that the prog fan dreams, imagines and expects from a so-called progressive group these days: length and quality! In short, this album is more of a renewal than a theft of the Phoenix, there is material to have fun during this exceeded hour with a strong sound and female voices which amplify the warmth of the compositions.

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