Losing Sun
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Perspective - Losing Sun Album Review
Album Review
Losing Sun's second album is going to launch them into the limelight. Having already received plaudits from their first album Inerita, their second release Perspective has a near flawlessly produced sound throughout the record.
Opening number Memory Run has already appeared on the infamous Scuzz TV channel, with the song featuring a ferocious yet simplistic drum roll to open the song. Memory Run is beautifully worked instrumentally, with guitar bass & drums working in unison with vocalist Ben Honebone and coming together fantastically with an array of instrumentals without dragging the song on like other artists often do. Perspective is the standout song from the Welsh rockers twelve song album. Deviating from their usual metallic sound briefly, it contains a melodic keyboard sound during the introduction which helps the song distance itself from the onslaught of non-stop metal on the record. The chorus still contains the chunky riffs and fast paced double bass pedalled drumming, but they keyboard does help to break it up.
The decision not to include much screaming on the album quite surprised me. The drums, bass and guitar work are all hard rock bordering on metal throughout, yet the decision not to scream makes the band a lot stronger and begs the question on whether they're rock or metal. Losing Sun does lack a slower paced number though. Analogous is a poor song that is just a non-stop screaming speed dictated number which favours noise over melody. 1994 is a slower track from the band, although there is no real change in the vocal style and eventually they turn it into a much heavier sounding song. It's nice to see they have the ability to make slower songs, although if you can't follow it through then I guess it counts for nothing,
I quite like this band. Having never heard of them before, their refreshing mix of metal instrumentals and rock sounding vocalists gives me faith that some of the newer rock bands can actually differentiate between each other. Although they occasionally got a little over the top with the speed of their songs, their guitar work is clearly a unique style, whilst the drums are heavy without ruining each song. Because of good producing, this band will easily slot into the limelight if they could perhaps develop one or two slower tempo'd songs. Other than that, it's a good little release that'd I'd recommend to all fans of newer metal and harder rock fans.
