Today’s review is of American Instrumental Progressive Metal band Project Alcazar’s new album.
This album features a great amount of talent, and while the guitar virtuosity can be appreciated on every single minute of every single song, the other instruments also thrive very interestingly. The drum patterns sometimes tend towards a complexity that displays great feeling, there are some jaw-dropping keyboard solos on tracks like “Stranger Ave” and that bass line on “The Panic Hand” definitely needs to be mentioned too.
Overall, the album has a lot of reminders of Dream Theater’s most instrumental albums, but it also has some nods to the works of Uli Jon Roth, Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen (especially notable for those heavy Neoclassical influences). These songs are incredibly elaborate, but they also display a great amount of emotion and in most cases the average 6-minutes song length seems too short as to express everything the melody has to show, so perhaps less and longer songs would’ve improved even more the album. Despite that, the band has really released a great full-length, with absolutely no need of a singer or any other instrument than the current ones.
I recommend this to fans of Progressive Metal, Neoclassical Metal and any kind of instrumental complexity. My rating is of 9/10.
Review by Varg The Mighty
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