Helioss
Devenir Le Soleil
Satanath Records / Mourning Light Records
This band has very adequate name to the music that they play on this recording. This is a fast album, an excellent mix of progressive power/death metal with various death metal vocals (mostly) and plenty of neo classical speed metal guitars (Et Dieu Se Tut). Music has both brutality and aggression condensed in sophisticated guitar work, also whole bunch of intense guitar shreds and leads with shining solos on top of it. Some orchestrations that they have in songs work very well for symphonic side of the band. This album is just thriving from one amazing idea into next – a piano in A Wall Of Certainty give you another taste of classical music which is present in their songs. One of their virtuoso track is another very fast song The End Of The Empire with amazingly performed guitars. Speed, heaviness and catchy orchestrations is the song Let The World Forget Me or you also have some of it in a track that follows right after, which is Singularity. With each and every minute that is passing on, music is getting more powerful and flawless. Nicolas Muller (guitars, bass) who is a main composed in the band had done incredible technical musical arrangements in songs that are undeniably great anticipated for music in sense of perfectionism. An Endless Stream has a feel of neo-classical black metal and they never resign to have some melodies in music or just those storming fast guitar riffs that heavy metal bands have. A perception of how this album should be written is Helioss the great attribute, because when thinking of putting music together by them, they pushed their vision of making metal to high level of performance.
Brutal vocals on this record are neither good nor bad, just decent sounding - surely they are not as flexible and finesse as music itself. The thing is that in song Devenir Le Soleil they showed off that they are capable to do it differently. Here, they used a wide spectrum of melodic vocals (more power metal style) that sound more majestic, just excellent. Even those growls with French lyrics sound better when expressed aggressively like in this track... I feel it should be done like this - with clean vocals on the entire record, not just in this one song that is over 20 minutes long, epic death and power metal track with cello, make-female vocals, ethnic influences, melodies, speed metal guitars and cabaret style musical moments... Album has quite a list of guest musicians; they mainly feature in this very song.
Here is also an instrumental track called Now... Shine!, which is a solid metal tune with some drama-like musical fragments.
It is a superbly dynamic and sensational album of this year. There is lot of great music to be heard if you decide to check this record out, big time!
Brutal vocals on this record are neither good nor bad, just decent sounding - surely they are not as flexible and finesse as music itself. The thing is that in song Devenir Le Soleil they showed off that they are capable to do it differently. Here, they used a wide spectrum of melodic vocals (more power metal style) that sound more majestic, just excellent. Even those growls with French lyrics sound better when expressed aggressively like in this track... I feel it should be done like this - with clean vocals on the entire record, not just in this one song that is over 20 minutes long, epic death and power metal track with cello, make-female vocals, ethnic influences, melodies, speed metal guitars and cabaret style musical moments... Album has quite a list of guest musicians; they mainly feature in this very song.
Here is also an instrumental track called Now... Shine!, which is a solid metal tune with some drama-like musical fragments.
It is a superbly dynamic and sensational album of this year. There is lot of great music to be heard if you decide to check this record out, big time!
Tracklist:
1 ...Et Dieu Se Tut
2 A Wall Of Certainty
3 The End Of The Empire
4 Let The World Forget Me
5 Singularity
6 An Endless Stream
7 La Lèpre Des Hommes
8 Devenir Le Soleil
9 Now... Shine!
1 ...Et Dieu Se Tut
2 A Wall Of Certainty
3 The End Of The Empire
4 Let The World Forget Me
5 Singularity
6 An Endless Stream
7 La Lèpre Des Hommes
8 Devenir Le Soleil
9 Now... Shine!
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 18.12.2020
Added: 18.12.2020