Vihaan - Invicta
Vihaan are from Detroit in the US and their music is
described as a mix of Death Metal, Prog and Jazz. Alarm bells are going off in my head already, as I’m not
a fan of anything of the technical variety, nor Jazz and almost immediately,
that’s what I’m confronted with.
Now, I can tell you already, this isn’t my thing. When
something fires off on different tangents, 9 times out of 10, it doesn’t feel
natural to my lone brain cell. The flow of the music generally doesn’t work for
me. But just because I don’t like, it doesn’t make it a bad album.
The playing here is faultless. I like the vocals, but not
the music. To be fair, some of the music takes me back to the likes of Genesis
and earlier Rush, and I’m ok with both bands. But the arrangements…. I’m just
not a fan and it leaves me cold.
So for those that like a bit of noodling, a flurry of
time changes, supreme/precise musicianship, and everything else that goes with
the territory, you’ll like this. For me
though, it’s like trying to chop down a tree with a plastic axe, fucking hard
going.
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