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GLR105CD
Second release from this interesting French progressive metal band. Enneade mixes old school prog rock with dark atmospheric Riverside-like themes and almost doom like riffing. You would have to think they've listened to some Type O Negative in their lifetime. Some nice guitar and keys soloing but it never gets overly wanky and thankfully they stay away from the Dream Theater sound (we've had enough of that already). This one strikes me as something out of the ordinary. Highly recommended.
"ENNEADE was born in 1996 of the reunion of musicians from varied musical horizons and has since then built up a serious reputation as a cutting edge prog’rock combo with a lingering 70’s aftertaste.
ENNEADE indeed offers a very elaborate music with alternating moments of peaceful bliss or sheer madness, where ever-changing syncopated rhythms and heady tunes intermingle to produce a coherent and inovative whole.
After their much acclaimed debut album “Remembrance”, released in 2005, by Musea Records, ENNEADE strike back with “Teardrops in morning dew”, a most ambitious concept album engineered by Neil CONTI (David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox…) and Gines Jimenez, mixed by Christophe Arnaud ((Uncommonmenfrommars, No good men) and mastered by Frank “Choko” Rivoire (High Tone, Le peuple de l’herbe, Têtes raides, Ez3kiel).
Its leading piece, “Teardrops in mourning due” - which takes the listener along 22 minute sonic storyboard exploration of the darkest depth of mourning, truly embodies ENNEADE’s music which has moved another step forward in terms of musical maturity and originality, the perfect alchemy of virtuoso and emotion."
- Style:Progressive Metal
- Record Label:Galileo Records