TWILIGHT FURIES

Swedish band VIOLENT SILENCE have been a going entity since the late 1990's, and since they released their first studio album in 2003 a total of four albums have been issued by the band. "Twilight Furies" is their most recent production, and was released through local Swedish label Open Mind Records in the late fall season of 2020.

The very best parts of "Twilight Furies" are amazing, fantastic and brilliant. The manner in which multiple keyboards with and without rhythm functions combines with bass, drums and percussion can at times be breathtaking, and while at times starkly different in scope and approach the particular retro-oriented sound explored on this album makes me think of recent US symphonic progressive rock band The Psychedelic Ensemble, for those who are aware of that project. While the vocals are a clear weak point of this production, those who know, love and treasure retro-oriented progressive rock with keyboards as the main instrument and clear connections to symphonic progressive rock as a specific style orientation will find a lot to cherish on "Twilight Furies". And if you in addition love strong rhythms work in general and percussion in particular, I do suspect that you'll find this album to be well worth your time.

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Posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 | Review this album | Report (Review #2485268)

Review #1 There are always two kinds of albums - the kind where after the first listen you already say that the music on the album sounds good, and the other kind where the music on the album can only be fully grasped after multiple listens. It is exactly to this second group that the new alb ... (read more)

Report this review (#2508630) | Posted by Smurfreviews | Wednesday, February 24, 2021 | Review Permanlink

Violent Science is made up of Johan Hedman, on keyboards, percussion, and backing vocals; Erik Forsberg, on lead vocals; Hannes Ljunghall, on keyboards and Simon Svensson on bass. The band has released three prior too Twilight Furies. A Broken Truce (2013), Kinetic (2005); and their self-titled ... (read more)

Report this review (#2485523) | Posted by thesimilitudeofprog | Wednesday, December 16, 2020 | Review Permanlink

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