NIGHT TO DAY

I have to agree with everyone else on here, this is a beauty. TIME COLLAPSE are a five piece band out of Greece who play a heavy style of music not too unlike FATES WARNING part way through their careers. Lots of atmosphere as the keyboardist pretty much uses synths to create another layer of sound or produce some atmosphere. We do get piano too. The singer adds a second guitar.

This was self released by the band in 2017 and I noticed they released a couple of singles in 2020 so hopefully a new album is on the way. There's a couple of guests including a female soprano vocalist who actually doesn't use words as we get these amazing vocal melodies on that first section of the "Messiah Complex". Also we get some clarinet on the title track. I love that this clocks in at 38 minutes and it's 2017!

"Time Bound" is the short but effective opener that builds with keyboards leading the way. Heaviness just before 1 1/2 minutes. So good! "Time Collapse" opens with a bass line as drums come and go. Piano, vocals and atmosphere take over as the keys echo. It settles before 2 minutes as we get this nice heavy sound with great sounding vocals. We get a brief instrumental section with drums leading the way before the vocals return. I'm such a fan of a band using their band name as a song title.

"Reflecting Lies" opens with heaviness with drums out front before a calm with vocals takes over around 1 1/2 minutes. Guitar to the fore then these multi-vocals that sound so amazing. More excellent sounding guitar 4 minutes in. "Night To Day" contrasts the heavy with the atmospheric so well. I'm a broken record here but man I love their sound.

"Messiah Complex" is divided into three sections with the first called "Projected Perfection" and this section is pretty much that. Atmosphere galore along with heaviness and of course our female guest adding those vocal expressions. The second section is called "Cracked Delusion" with plenty of piano early on as vocals arrive. They contrast the piano sections with the heaviness after 2 minutes as vocals step aside. Guitar and drums lead and that guitar sounds so clean and beautiful. Gotta love the intensity and vocal arrangements late.

The final section of "Messiah Complex" is called "Redemption" and man this brings modern day ANATHEMA to mind, it's so uplifting and a perfect way to end the album in my opinion. This record just keeps getting better to the point this might be closer to 4.5 stars at this point. I've been holding off this review just so I could get a few more spins in. My kind of music.