REVIEW:EIDOLON - Hallowed Apparition

 

EIDOLON - Hallowed Apparition

Metal Blade Records

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What a dynamic piece!  Blending in 3 genres all at once.  The guitars were amazing and the vocals perfectly drawn out.  I really liked this whole album.  It's a shame that they're broken up!  I cannot get enough of this release.  The music itself is that what's captivating.  And the energy of it all.  What some great musicians for this album!  The riffs are so elegant and well played out as were the solo guitar pieces.  I just have nothing but good things to say about this release.  What musicianship, talent and great heavy/power/thrash metal that goes along with this entire piece of work.  The music itself isn't too fast tempos and it's more captivating that way!

Every riff is coordinated to mix amongst-side the vocals as if they were perfectly in unison with them.  And given that this is a quite diverse sort of metal album, you have clean areas in small bits mixed with a majority of thick distorted guitar riffs.  The solos are sublime in construction.  I enjoyed them also.  But mostly the guitar and vocals are what's appealed to me the most.  Everyone did a great job too in construction of musicianship.  Again, it's too bad about their split not long after this album was released.  And if it weren't for a friend of mine, I would've never encountered this band/project.

Production sound was adequate with making this an above average release.  Quite into the genius in musicianship.  I couldn't be happier with the outcome of this release and just wish that they would've stayed together.  But I'm sure it was a mutual consent to end their effort in the making of albums within this scope.  Their guitarist Glen Drover is in many different bands-past and present.  What a diverse musical career he's had.  He's been a part of many different successful bands-Megadeth, Queensryche, et al.  So that's probably the reason why the band has taken a split mutually concerned in the way of metal.

I heard this first on Spotify and then decided to get a copy in the mail via in the form of a CD.  It's just such a great album that didn't get enough press in my opinion.  These guys know how the hell to make some great songs.  And what a great band!  I was wondering what the score would be and I thought "next to perfect."  They really did some great work throughout the album.  All the songs were strong!  I didn't experience any lack thereof in songs each one was not greater or lesser than in any respect.  They tore it up musically here covering 3 different genres stomping all of them!  Check them out! 

Ryan “Death8699” Fanucchi