REVIEW: GRAND ALCHEMIST - INTERVENING COMA CELEBRATION

 

GRAND ALCHEMIST - INTERVENING COMA CELEBRATION (Sound Riot Recs., 2002)

Produced By: Rune Thoen and Grand Alchemist

Tracks: 1- Faced (intro), 2- A Nailed Visual Effect, 3- Down Again, 4- Incurable Longing, 5- Approach (Open the Shell), 6- Intervening Coma-Celebration, 7- Sensemachine, 8- Psyche and a Flower to the New Lifetime, 9- Minds Delusion Sleeps for Creation, 10- Solemn and Sophisticated, 11- Under my Shallow Skin, 12- Snap Up the Raw of Existence

Cover Art by Sigurd and Rune Thoen

Recorded at Studio Elg

Here we have one of the best bands to come from the underground !! The music of this band is really amazing and each of the tracks that are on this CD has wonderful arrangements (incredible keyboards on all the songs!!) and interesting guitar riffs that add heaviness (as the deathly vocals do) while retaining the beauty and darkness of the band´s sound. Each of the songs here has an obscure epic feeling that is achieved thanks to the excellent keyboards arrangements that are fundamental to Grand Alchemist´s sound. The drumming here leaves a lot of place to the guitar but at the same time does a lot of interesting work (check the double bass in tracks like "Down Again"). Each composition is extremely well developed and has many ideas and changes that make the music here extremely interesting.

Favorite tracks: All the CD. One of the records of the year

Contact: www.soundriot.net