HEART OF SUN

It seems like a long time since I've spent some time with a Prog-Metal record so I decided to do that with Italy's HEART OF SUN. A five piece including keyboards and two of them add programming. I really like the album cover art. The music though just doesn't do it for me overall despite being a little different at times from the norm. Some crazy synths at times and the guitar style on the opener reminds me of some jazz/fusion guitarists surprisingly. After that he's all metal though.

The drumming bugs me, I just feel like it has that power-metal style where your getting hammered into submission. The singer does remind me of James LaBrie at times, not the strongest voice and an accent. Now after saying those negative things about the singer and drummer they are both from TIME MACHINE a band from Italy I really like. It's also a band that has had many lineup changes and my favourite album by them "Eternity Ends" has a different singer and drummer than the two on here. Also, everyone mentions DREAM THEATER when describing this record so there's that.

I did find this entertaining but I'm not huge on the vocals and there's those predictable tracks where every box is ticked. This seems to have been a one-off and they're from Italy! Anyway a good album with some talented folks but not a 4 star record.