II: CONNECTION

SOULSPLITTER describes itself as a German, avant-garde music and art collective that released one of the best albums of 2019 on a jazz-prog-alternative metal basis; in the direction of Dream Theater and Opeth. This new opus gives the voice to Sami for more continuity; different to avoid quoting great dinos in each title, different because more calm, clear, concise, distilling a clean and singular sound now.

'Disconnected' on djent rock like Tesseract, more modulated than their first opus, fresh, rhythmic, a jazzy soft evolution and a soaring atmosphere like water dripping from a waterfall and signing there the progressive character; end in a soft voice. 'Glass Bridge' intro acoustic guitar, cool title with vocals on a riff typed Terramaze and other groups Periphery or Animals As Leaders; a superb guitar solo and a declination with a synth piano that sets the rhythm. 'Incineration' continues with this characteristic riff of purists, a heavy bass on a coulis of notes; the voice is groove, from beyond the grave and denotes for the unaccustomed, we are far from prog, bam declination melodic limit classic with violin to silence, brilliant. 'Erosion' with reverberation of the air and ballad à la Leprous, voice pulling high, musical litany which rises while keeping this frame; the jerky air arrives and gives the intensity, the rhythm with this piano which distills its notes like a daisy its petals in the wind! The good surprise of this album that the weighted softness can be a plus, just sublime title. 'Thrive' continues on the smooth sound with a jerky tonic djent riff; surprising since we especially feel the voice full of emotion; a long solo confirms the classic avant-garde composition with violin and piano before the pyrotechnic finale. 'Gratitude' air country-jazzy prog declined with Soulsplitter sauce; it smells of the instrumental, it's rhythmic, it's fresh, quite conventional but pleasant, it goes like an interlude; the rhythmic guitar solo accompanied by the small piano suddenly accelerates to give modern metal pep. 'Reconnected' crystalline piano before the machine gun attack; the voice passes through a screaming jolt on a high base becoming lyrical.

Soulsplitter is oriented on a contemporary colorful metal rock, progressive in its musical evolution; melodic arrangements to pose the listener, boosted compositions associating spleen and debauchery of controlled energy, prog metal djent sprinkled with strings and piano for a compendium of contemporary music. A condensed sound that loses a bit of its original creative madness, a posed Haken, a posed Soulsplitter to blend into the current climate.