THE BLUE DAWN

2011's Symmetrical and the 2013's Last Embrace to Humanity established Odd DImension as an adventurous prog-power band willing to try unconventional song structures and radio pop crooning, before dissappearing into obscurity like many others in the ungrateful progressive metal genre. Well, in 2021 these bombastic Italians have returned, with only two fifths of the original lineup, but the ambition to create something grand - a whole space opera. So how does it sound? Epic and sweeping, but overall less metallic and more in line with a heavy neo-prog or even a hard rock sound. The long songs avoid the typical verse-chorus formula and take a while to develop, unraveling rather like chapters in a story with successive musical themes, and for this reason might take some time to sink in. Minus a point for the cringy narrative voices.