RED MARS

Viriditas is an unknown young prog rock band from UK formed from the ashes of another band from UK , but a progressive metal one named Acid Empire from where Mike Bridge on bass and Davis Stanton on guitars join forces from a new project.

Well Viriditas started around 2016 when Acid Empire was put on hold and released in 2018 their debut named Red mars - based upon events from the book of the same name by author Kim Stanley Robinson. Besides a great art work, gatefold cover, the music is no less exciting. Imagine a combinatation of old neo prog around early '90s specially from UK and dutch school of that time and floydian atmosphere. The sense of melody is well developed on all pieces combined with some technical waving parts, the vocal lines aswell are pretty good, specially on pieces like The killing (really really good vocal parts, from male vocalist) aswell instrumental sections and the longest pieces from here We See Red - 25 min pure bliss with nice shifting moods , all done in great manner, nice instrumental passages that showing potential in this band, somehow remaining unkown in prog circles so far.

All in all more then decent debut that worth investigated. 3 solid stars