IN HUMANITY

ANYONE is the brainchild of multi-talented US artist Riz Story basically. He already has formed this music project way back in the last century, while starting with a more heavy alternative, grunge and metal music mix. The previous 2020 album 'On The Ending Earth ...' though has been the initial point for a major shift towards progressive rock, including reminiscences of Rush, Tool, Led Zeppelin, to name a few. And now, concerning the overall flow, the compositional aspect, this album production comes matured again. Hence, for some reason, one can consider it his masterpiece. So far of course, only he himself bears the clues what will follow. I am definitely delighted with the revealed inspiration and especially the technical finesse. Yep, challenging arrangements and such a tricky execution during the course of round about 100 minutes, accompanied by a crystal clear sound.

This nearly has no equal currently. I only could name a very few artists respectively bands which are sounding somewhat similar, let's say Coevality or Ontologics. At first glance let's consider that there is a Sci-Fi concept behind this, dealing with the dystopian vision '... when mankind has made the earth uninhabitable and venture into the cosmos to find a planet that is even more beautiful than earth, which they immediately begin to destroy ...' Holy shit! But quite a possible view. Music-wise there's a strong powerful heavy rock expression to note. Where the guitars are dominant, both electric and acoustic, compared to piano, synths, and electronics. Concerning the sound mix the vocals are rather prominent. This applies to the drums in the same way. But as often nowadays it's nearly impossible to say if they were acoustically or electronically generated. I tend to the latter.

Man! Occasionally I had problems to cope this in its entirety, which is running over such a long course. Thus for a certain time I would not have complained if the album was presented in a bit more compressed format. You know, less is more in some cases. But this has vanished in the meanwhile, I learned to reserve enough space instead for this incredible production. Lively drums are opening The Disappearing Everything, some well-appointed piano keystrokes, psychedelic soarings as well as agressive metal affin guitar riffs, the complex flow, I really adore this. Don't Swallow Tomorrow bears a little Black Sabbath feel. Misanthropist is the sole track with external support, speaking of Jon Davison who contributes the vocals. I'm very impressed, it's an overwhelming experience, very ambitious. Happy listening. 4.5 stars on the PA scale.