After a four year hiatus, Portuguese foremost neo-proggers Forgotten Suns are finally back. And in great style, I may add!
During this period, the band experienced some member changes and released a demo (Fiction Edge II) that served to open a windo [+]After a four year hiatus, Portuguese foremost neo-proggers Forgotten Suns are finally back. And in great style, I may add!
During this period, the band experienced some member changes and released a demo (Fiction Edge II) that served to open a window of what was to become their new full length release - Snooze.
A conclusion that immediately pops up is that Forgotten Suns has taken this time out to successfully and carefully mature and settle a very specific own sound, very much within the Neo-Progressive / Melodic Prog-Metal stylings.
In fact, the music presented in Snooze shows us a band that has grown as a sole entity, where its members interact and interplay exquisitely and are able to create strong melodies (though quite simple) and excellently construct some slightly more complex tracks.
Drifting away from the obvious Marillion and Dream Theater leanings so well documented in their debut Fiction Edge 1, Forgotten Suns has gained the confidence and tightness necessary to develop a very personal sound.
Taking Linx vocalizations as an example, he has been able to set himself a very unique style, as he sings in a peculiar (and not the most logic) way that works to perfection. The way he "attacks" the music is very unique, for he seems to draw "angular" entrances, as he interprets the music in a different way than it would be expected by the neo-prog habitué listener. And the mere fact Linx has chosen not to take the most obvious approach and has instead strive (successfully) to conceive an individual singing style, is enough to add a lot of bonus points to Snooze and raise the interest of the overall result in an exponential way.
The bass lines, provided by Johnny have been thought and crusted to perfection in the music, and they do form a very strong rhythmic section with J.C.Samora's drumming.
Ricardo Falcão provides the guitars, and he does shine its way throughout the album. Mainly influenced by Rothery and Guilmour in the more emotional solos and Petrucci when settling the more metallic riffs and solos, still he does it in a metamorphic way that enabled him to (also) create his own style.
The album opens its first cd (it is a double one) in a powerful way. As Dreaming of Reality swirls in a crescendo, set in the threshold of Neo and
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