Reign Of The Architect

Album Title: 
Rise
Release Date: 
Monday, April 15, 2013
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This is, for a debut album, pretty impressive stuff.  Of course the musicians featuring on this album are no freshman in the music business.  The band hails from Israel, and features Yuval Kramer  (Amaseffer) on guitar, whereas the mastermind behind the band is Yotam Avni (Prey For Nothing).  They are aided by guest performances by Jeff Scot Soto, Mike LePond (Symphony X) and Joost Van Den Broeck (Ayreon, After Forever).

The genre they bring us is progressive metal, but it’s not quite your typical progressive metal, since is has unusual influences interwoven in the music, as well as making use of some more unusual instruments.  How this sounds like live I’m quite interested in. Within total 5 different vocalists it’s obvious that there is lot of variation on this album.  Anyway, musically it stands like a rock.  It’s not an easy album though, and requires quite some spins to enjoy it completely.

The album is a sci-fi concept album, and it will take them another album to uncover the whole story, so you’ll have to be patient till the next album is released, and since this album took them almost five years to complete…

93/100