TALE OF THE LUNATICS

2022 has got started with Faraz's introspective but brilliant sound operation. "Tale Of The Lunatics" was released as a Pakistani guitarist Faraz ANWAR in the beginning of 2022. Thanks to Faraz's email, I could meet and purchase such a wonderful creation. Through this album featuring his incredible guitar technique and theatrical / dynamic passages, it makes sense he's been inspired by Yngwie Malmsteen or Allan Holdsworth. Like a diverse musical powerplant produced not only with metal and rock elements but also classical or jazz ones, he plays guitar in a lively, fascinating manner all over the creation and grasps our heart strictly. Such an enthusiastic sound message can be heard from the beginning of the album "Inception" - filled with dramatic footage by energetic electric guitars, precision rhythm sections, and emotional synthesizers.

Just like a vivacious but well-matured sparkling wine, his incredibly vigorous guitar plays illuminate the depressive world under such a tough situation in the "Weight Of The World", another authentic progressive metal fantasy that sounds like Dream Theater. "One Of Them" involves massive power mixed and merged with distorted vocals and sharp-edged guitar sounds. Such a mystic cooperation gives the audience an unstable mental activity created by quiet anger and vague anxiety. In "Throw Your Swords" we can feel not only desert energy or dissonant tension but also sensitive moments or lonesome vibes. On the contrary, "Liberation" releases our inner mind from kinda virtual prison in the current circumstance, fully by powerful, delightful music potential. In the middle part Faraz's one man show should stabilize our positive intention to live a fantastic life on a regular basis. The last "Lap Lost" his masterpiece and the magnificent epilogue prescribes universal positivity of progressive metal for the audience. Full of creativity cannot remind us of depressive states nor painful futures at all. Sounds like his brilliant guitar plays and enthusiastic voices motivate the listeners definitely.

I would be wrong but it sounds like this opus, that is about the story of an imaginary angel "afaiel", protests against disclimination or human rights violations all around the world and hopes people unification and world peace / stability. This opus will give a excellent power to us regardless of the current situation. Worth giving it a listen, let me say.