ANUBIS GATE: The Detached (PROGRESSIVE METAL): review / opinion to read on Music Waves

First contacts with this band, which is now in its fourth album and which, although revealing real qualities, never knew how to produce the album that would make it explode in the eyes and ears of the public. For example, the review of their previous album indicated many references, each more appealing than the others (Beyond Twilight, Vanden Plas, Ayreon) but without ever transcending them.

After a short intro it's a big riff and a high tempo that strikes the minds. In a mixture of progressive metal and speed metal (for the double pedal), the decoration is set. Jacob Hansen's voice (rhythm guitarist from Beyond Twilight) is quite high-pitched and will not disconcert the regulars of this kind of record. The instrumental parts seem well composed and quite varied. The epic ending of "Find A Way (Or Make One)" perfectly opens the way to the long introduction of "Yiri". The few electronic keys scattered here and there do not disturb the smooth running of a perfectly successful chorus. As soon as you hear it, this title will haunt you all day long. The piece is concluded by the majestic and bewitching voices of the outro.

The more traditional melodic metal is well represented with "Lost In Myself". The Egyptian mythological atmospheres, finally as our imagination has created them, are found on this disc with the Arab phases mixed with the modern sounds of "Pyramids". The compositions are generally quite classical but it is the different instrumental and arranged parts that give this album its interest. The power ballad "Out Of Time" comes at the right time to calm the game even if powerful parts are present.

The apotheosis takes shape with the nearly ten minutes of "Options Going Nowhere". All the assets of the Danes are gathered in this long piece: arrangement of modern voices, explosive verses and choruses, sharp riffs, technical soli and grandiloquent instrumental passages. The only small reserve is Jacob Hansen's voice, which can be annoying when you swallow yourself in one go for the 65 minutes of the album.

Less incisive than Vanden Plas but more progressive than DGM, this new Anubis Gate is a great success that will certainly delight fans of the genre. It seems that the progress made by the band has been significant since their first album "Purification". It took four albums to get there and we don't see what could stop the Danes from marching to the top. - Official website

ANUBIS GATE

THE DETACHED

LOCOMOTIVE

PROGRESSIVE METAL