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Binary Dream
"Third album from cutting edge Lebanese Progressive Metal band, Turbulence.
Turbulence by name… this truly is a Prog Metal album for genre afficionados. We said that the band’s 2023 Frontiers debut, Frontal was “a defiantly bold attempt to incorporate the music of the wider world into their canon”. That aim continues with Binary Dream.
And it would be easy to use introduce Dream Theater at this point…so we will.
Right from the first note on the album’s opening track, ‘Static Mind’, concentrated listens reveal that the intricacies of the song structures and the musicianship, at first hard to pin down, are presented in much the same way as do the genre’s universal benchmark, Dream Theater.
That comparison doesn’t always stack up, but we can also hear echoes in tracks like ‘Ternary’ and ‘Hybrid’, which have darker sounds and even more complex song structures than the norm.
Doesn’t make them bad people of course. On the contrary, as unabashed high concept (robot wakes up to a “I think therefore I am” moment) albums go, this one continues to demand our full on attention.
The two instrumental tracks, ‘Time Bridge’ and ‘Manifestations’ stand out.
These are for those fans unafraid to wade into densely packed arrangements, where all instruments mesh in an impenetrable maze of Progmetal complexity. There are good tunes there too. Buried deep perhaps, degrees of inner turbulence you might say, but as the tracks proceed, they emerge triumphant.
‘Theta’ is light on its feet,’Corrosion’ too, even thought it’s more of a ballad, each stepping from one heavyweight moment to the next, totally in sync with the band’s musicianship, polishing it up to a gleaming technical shine.
‘Hybrid’, the first trailer track, is perhaps the album’s most accessible piece of music. There’s a visceral power and an intensity to it, but it’s got a strong melodic core that keeps it bolted to terra firma.
Strong album, and you can’t help thinking there’s more to come." - Get Ready To Rock!