COEN

Coen , this young talented progressive metal band from Singapore, released thier debut this year 2018 named Remnants of war. I like what I've heared here, melodic side of prog metal but aswell with enough heavy moments to be truly captivating from start to finish. The musical direction is in Dream Theater style, even Jordan Rudess is invited on one piece Perpetual: Remnants Of Yesterday. I really like a lot the vocal arrangements, Derrick Tan is quite more then ok here, just perfect for this type of music. Aswell the guitars and keyboards are proeminent , complex and quite intresting on every tune, specially on opening track, then on longest one Perpetual: Remnants Of Yesterday. The druming is top for sure. All in all more then decent album, with great music and awesome art work. A winner from me, and easealy 3.5 stars, good, worth investigated by any prog metal fan.