CHARISMATIC LEADERS

"Empire" is a frank attack with a powerful bass, an explosive djent, swirling tune, a fiery riff and a clear, cold and captivating vocal; a brutal, hypnotic, disturbing alchemy like this apocalyptic finale. "Porcelain" sinks in with this viscous mid-tempo air on a melancholic background; alternation of the beautiful and the gruff, a zest of LEPROUS, a little of KLONE for this controlled fury and the rest on the melodic torpor of RUSH; the break extends in length, searching the corners for a while before returning to a metallic air from which catchy archaic notes vibrate in resonance. "Submission" with the percussive tempo forward; 5 minutes pass smoothly before the slow progressive variation where the vibrant guitar takes me back to the best of RUSH; the melodic, brutal prog sends a tornado message on one of the future potential progs of tomorrow with a disconcerting finale of musical fusion that my dear vintage prog friends will have difficulty keeping. "Saboteur" heavy imprint with the riff that kills, on a METALLICA in fusion, James reducing the musical power of his suave, captivating voice; the melody flows easily before the prog drift where the guitars release orgiastic scents, on DEVO thrash, KARNIVOOL, TOOL. A balanced musical hell which would not have its chronicle here without these hypnotic and "mantranesque" progressive convolutions; it seeps into every nook and cranny of your ears to sabotage any urge to resist.

"Disciple" with cello at the beginning, stomping bass; languorous tune dominated by the combination of clear voice and nervous riff, everything to make you want to stamp your feet, here I'm thinking more of the dark tunes of SOEN distilling a catchy, metallic air, capable of making your ears bleed with a simple riff and where the silence the resonance amplifies the musical invasion. "Caught in the Afterglow" arrives for the sinister acoustic interlude on a proven Scandinavian tune, a contemplative tune before a warlike storm and leading to "The Freeze" always in a slow, icy, metronomic tempo; paralyzed by global atrocities; a melancholy melody with acoustic reverberation which will swell and leer on the alternative dark wave current, the sound of the interwar period, I am thinking of KILLING JOKE; bam the violent break which arrives in fury, the aggressive riff, the guitar solo piling it all on a machine gun 12.7 tune; it increases and goes further than our darkest thoughts; the guitar reminds me of the destructive ROGUE MALE; dry drums, violent discordant rhythm, destructive, heavy, fusion of a KLONE which would have pushed further, of a current creative METALLICA for the apoplectic finale.

A powerful hard prog album experimenting with a new mix of violence and intoxicating melodies, which becomes a potential hit in this modern musical genre.(5!) Initially on Profil Prog.