ARRIVE ALIVE

Last week I listened to "The sentinel", Pallas their 'magnum opus' and I immediately wrote an almost euphoric review for this site! This evening I decided to listen to this album (I own the LP) because I was so curious to the sound before their masterpiece. You can conclude that Pallas sound raw and that the compositions lack direction. In fact my listening session was a bit disappointing experience but to my delight Pallas used the Mellotron frequently, I enjoyed lots of wonderful choir-Mellotron waves! And the floods of violin-Mellotron during the intro of the only mature track entitled "The ripper" are also evoking goose bumps! The use of bass pedals is always very pleasant to hear but in general this is Pallas 'in the scaffolds'. After three years of many concerts and rehearsals Pallas matured and released "The sentinel", on this album you can hear that they were still searching for the formula.