REVIEW: MOONLYGHT - PROGRESSIVE DARKNESS

 

MOONLYGHT - PROGRESSIVE DARKNESS (Independent , 2002)

Produced by Moonlyght and Philippe Poissant

Recorded at Sonum Studio

Cover Art by Martin Lafleur

This CD really fooled me in the beginning because due to the melodies that are on the beginning (which are close to an european heavy metal style) of "Fantasy" I thought "Oh, they sent me a wrong record", but I was wrong, after a brief acoustic interlude enters a more deathly part with rawer vocals, and then enters some female vocals and everything has a lot of melodies and keyboards !! Moonlyght is an amazing band!!! They have one million of ideas and they construct songs with thousands of them going on putting melodies and heavy riffs and breaks here and there. Plus they have some guest musicians in female vocals (combined with the male vocals which are clean and screaming in many places), violin and accordion !! Some parts reminded me of In the Woods but Moonlyght have more variations within each of the tracks. The problem is that I want more Moonlyght....and this CD was recorded 2002...I don´t want to wait too long for more of their music...please guys write more songs in this style!!!! This is with no doubt one of the CDs of the year.

Tracks: 1- Fantasy, 2- The Sceptic Traveller, 3- Ride on Ice Storms, 4- A Tale from a Fantastic Kingdom, 5- The Autumn´s Freezing Harmony, 6- From Honour to Nothingness, 7- Progresive Darkness

Favorite tracks: The whole CD is amazing and really original. One of the CDs of 2002.

Contact: www.moonlyght.ca