Band : Lava Engine
Album title : In Limbo
Label : Liljegren Records
Distributor : Connecting Music
Release Date : 28/01/2011
Release : CD

Once again a band whose existence was unknown to me, and so it was with absolutely no idea about which genre this band could belong to that I started to listen to this EP.
What immediately struck me is that this band, besides being very strong musically, writes rather melancholically music.  These are not songs that invite you to bang your head of, neither are they sing-along songs.  This is progressive metal, with hints of a band like Spock’s Beard in it.

This is an album that has to grow on you, because either you like it when you first play it, and you start liking it more and more every time you play it, each time discovering new things on the album, or you don’t like it when you first play it.  But even then, if you play it a few times more, your opinion might change.
Very nice effort for their second release. I wonder if in the near future they’ll  be releasing a full album ?

85/100

Erik Morren.