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(Anthropia) - "Chain Reaction"

Label - Adarca Records
Reviewed by:

"Philip Wooldridge"- (Ravenheart Music)

Genre:
(Female Fronted) {Rock/Symphonic-Metal}-(Music)
Country:
France
Length:
1hr
Release Date:
February 16th, 2009
Band Members: Hugues "Hugo" Lefebvre - Vocals, Guitars Nathalie Olmi - Vocals
  Yann Mouhad - Guitars Julien Negro - Bass
  Damien Rainaud - Drums
 
Track Listing: 1.)- Incarnation (Prologue) - 2:49
9.)-Trinity (The New Consensus) - 8:52
  2.)- A New Self - 5:33
10.)-The Tree of Life - 9:08
  3.)- Whipping Soul - 7:49 11.)- Breeze in the Leaves (Epilogue) - 4:52
  4.)- The Torn Off Wing of the Butterfly - 6:37
  5.)-Take Me Home - 5:23  
  6.)-The Night at the Opera - :50  
  7.)-The Altar of Trust - 6:44  
  8.)-Those Days Are Always Rainy - 1:23  

Review:

The second album from the Frenchman Hugues Lefebvre and his band draws obvious comparisons to Ayreon, but it is more guitar driven, technical, and song based. There is also a strong Dream Theatre and Pendraggon influence. The story is very deep and thought provoking, about two souls, portrayed by Hugues and Nathalie Olmi, who love each other deeply. However, they are constantly incarnated in new human bodies by God and therefore deprived of being together. That is until they meet in their human forms, their union creating the chain reaction of the album’s title. After the suitably eerie and portentous prologue, first song ‘A New Self’ combines powerful riffage with melodic metal and lightning fast guitar solos. The next two songs remind me of a heavier Pendragon, the melodic prog metal of ‘Whipping Soul’, with a delightful piano solo by guest Kevin Codfert, and the more laid back ‘The Torn Off Wings of a Butterfly’, which has a truly beautiful mid section before the guitar solo takes it into the stratosphere. ‘Take Me Home’ is a jazzier, funkier, catchier song, the vocal interplay between Hugues and Nathalie is incredible throughout the album, they are like Mr. and Mrs. Mats Leven, they are so well matched they are joined at the hip. After ‘The Night at the Opera’s’ brief neo classical shredfest we move on to the powerful melodic metal ’The Alter of Trust’, good grief, these guys can play. After the gorgeous classical guitar interlude, ‘These Days Are Always Rainy’, comes two immense Dream Theatre type songs, ‘Trinity’ and ‘The Tree of Life’. It closes with deeply moving epilogue ‘Breeze in the Leaves’, if you have not got a tear in your eye, you must be made of stone. This is classy, sophisticated, superbly produced, highly professional, poignant and phenomenally performed, if you like Ayreon and Dream Theatre this is a must in you collection. Easily available on CD Baby and many other stores, see their Myspace for more info,

http://www.myspace.com/anthropia

9 out of 10

 

 

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