 
What I have got here is a little super-group with
members taken from the likes of Sevendust, Evanescence,
Virgos Merlot, DoubleDrive, Stereomud, Stuck Mojo
and Skrape, at least it was when the band formed
back in 2004 with their first album “Twelve
Year Silence” was more successful than I’d
have imagined it would have been! Selling a tremendous
12,000 records within in its first week of release,
that however was in 2005 and this is now 2012
and since they haven’t released an album
in 7 years they seem to have just faded into the
background. An interesting fact about this new
release though is that as all of the band members
have been dragged apart by other projects they
haven’t had chance to get around to writing
any new material so everything you hear on this
release was written around the time of their debut
release back in 2005.
I can definitely feel a tiny bit of the Sevendust
style in album opener “Fist from the Sky”
as that riff is chunky as, thick tones and interesting
structures, it’s certainly not like much
else on the scene today. No idea why but the song
“Come Alive” sound’s really
familiar to me, particularly on the chorus though
with those vocals, no idea why; these vocals are
quite hard to describe, there’s something
about them that’s just, well emotional in
the way that they have melody and range with just,
something I can’t describe. It doesn’t
really hit home until I reach “Sorry”
mid way through the album how good these guys
actually are, as this ballad-esque track is for
lack of a better term bloody wicked, the atmospheric
music shapes itself to match these fantastic vocal
melodies to really bring them out, but at times
it’s still really heavy retaining the band’s
edge so it’s not completely out of turn
for them to attempt this kind of track.
“Caught in the Light” as well is a
well structured track on par with “Sorry”,
the whole album couldn’t really be classed
as a brutal metal album that provokes an aggressive
onslaught it’s more of a hard atmospheric
rock album and a bloody good one at that mind
you; ups and downs, upbeat and restrained, a full
album with a vast range in varied material. Don’t
see why they’ve let this project take such
a backseat all these years when it sounds as fresh
as it does, yeah they’ve got other things
going on but 5 years was a bit much, nevertheless
if they get this out there they might be able
to rekindle the success of their debut and it
may then take priority.
4/5
Review by James Webb
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