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Max Velychko - Born in Kirovohrad, Ukraine

This is the project of guitarist and composer Max VELYCHKO (also appeared in KARFAGEN, SUNCHILD, MODERN-ROCK ENSEMBLE).

They have released 2 albums and the latest "Wizard's Eyes" contains tracks that were composed through the years, and now, after 6 years of silence, it's finally released. It sounds a more like prog-melodic-instrumental with a wide range of deep guitar works and keyboards palettes based on groovy and powerfull rhythm section. If you're a fan of LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT, JOE SATRIANI, STEVE VAI, etc, you'll definitely like this record.
Each of 11 tracks of this album has its own story and mood - from power and energy of "Wizard's Eyes" and "Dreaming Deja Vue", through a deep and emotional "Horizon", "Fantasia" and a bit of vedic and philosophic "Haribol" - to absolutely "flying" "To The Sky" and intimate-feeling "The Cold Spring". We invite you to take part in our musical journey inside the sound.

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4.08 | 13 ratings
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2010
4.03 | 95 ratings
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2017

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 Wizard's Eyes by INSIDE THE SOUND album cover Studio Album, 2017
4.03 | 95 ratings

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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by ssmarcus

3 stars It is truly a blessing to live an era where, thanks to the democratization and globalization of the means of musical production and distribution, a talented group of musicians all the way in The Ukraine can affordably and independently produce stellar sounding music and have it reach progressive metal and rock fans the world over. Inside the Sound, a Ukrainian instrumental progressive metal group, have put together an album that can proudly claim its place beside other more widely known releases from the group's peers in this global scene of instrumental progressive metal.

The music on Wizard's Eyes is at its best when effectively blending Liquid Tension Experiment-style progressive metal with Procupine Tree-inspired psychedelia. Such is the case on the album's opening three tracks. The music is significantly weaker when it is driven merely by your standard instrumental guitar virtuoso style ala Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. And, unfortunately, it is these weaker elements that make up most of the record's run time. Still, it is an enjoyable listen all the way through with enough flashes of brilliance to make it a cut better than the competition.

 Wizard's Eyes by INSIDE THE SOUND album cover Studio Album, 2017
4.03 | 95 ratings

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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by kev rowland
Special Collaborator Honorary Reviewer

4 stars Inside The Sound is the project of Ukrainian guitarist Max Velychko (Karfagen, Sunchild, Modern Rock Ensemble), with 2017's 'Wizard's Eyes' being his second release, some six years on from the debut. Alongside bassist Dmitry Trifonov and drummers Dmitry Polevoy and Aleksnder Yermolovich, plus a few guests (the most notable being Antony Kalugin), Velychko has produced a really enjoyable guitar-led instrumental album. In many ways it is quite reminiscent of classic Steve Vai, with lots of different moods and styles, with the more reflective "Fantasia" contrasting greatly against the more shredding material. It is a light and fresh release, something which is immediately accessible and totally enjoyable. There is some wonderful music coming out of the Ukraine, and Velychko is involved with three of the most important bands, showing here in his solo work some techniques and styles he does not always get to show.

But this is not just a one-man band, and both drummers bring their own styles to the fore while the bass playing of Trifonov is incredibly warm and fluid. Although there are keyboards used sparingly, this is very much a guitar album and at times the band operates as a power trio with just some basic keyboards providing a backdrop. He also treats us to the use of a six-string banjo at times, while the introduction of sitar at another point is also interesting. This is an album that anyone who enjoys the more reflective and thoughtful guitarists, as opposed to permanent speed, will find plenty on here to enjoy as he provides dynamics, contrast, and a lot of fun. Well worth investigating.

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4.03 | 95 ratings

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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by VianaProghead
Prog Reviewer

4 stars Review Nš 169

A couple of weeks ago, a very special package arrived in my mailbox. It wasn't a great surprise for me because some time ago I was contacted by Andrew Nazarenko asking me if I was interested in receive the last work of Max Velychko. He would send me a hard copy of the album. Of course I said yes. First, because I'm always interested to know the new things which are being made in the world of prog. Second, as a collector of albums I never lose the opportunity to increases it. Besides, it's better to have a hard copy to review an album than a digital copy. Sincerely, I never listened to his previous debut studio album of this project, "Time Z". But, as I had already contacted with his guitar style on the project of Vladimir Gorashchenko, Modern Rock Ensemble on the album "Touch The Mystery", an album already reviewed by me on Progarchives, I'm really very interested because he made a great job on Vladimir's album.

Max Velychko is a Ukrainian guitarist and composer who released two studio albums, "Time Z", in 2010 and "Wizard's Eyes", in 2017. Inside The Sound is a prog metal project of him. According to the linear notes inside the digipack release, he has always been influenced by guitar heroes, progressive rock projects, even jazz rock fusion and modern electronic indie styles of music. I think that is particularly evident on this album. By the other hand, his participation on several music projects, such as, Karfagen, Sunchild and Modern Rock Ensemble, make of him an inescapable character of the modern progressive rock made in the Eastern European Countries, mainly in Ukraine. So, fans of Liquid Tension Experiment, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Riverside and even Steven Wilson, definitely will like this album, very much.

The line up on the album is Max Velychko (guitars, keyboards and 6 string banjo), Dmitry Trifonov (bass), Dmitry Polevoy (drums) and Alexander Yermolovich (drums). The album has also the participation of Antony Kalugin (keyboards), Daniel Ilyin (electric violin), Nila Gopal (table) and Indranila (vocals, Vedic chanting and acoustic sitar).

So, "Wizard's Eyes" is an instrumental melodic progressive rock album of Inside The Sound, the prog rock metal musical project of Max Velychko. "Wizard's Eyes" is their second album and was as released in 2017. It contains tracks that were composed through the years. After years of silence, more properly seven years, we are faced with the release of this new album. The album sounds more like a prog melodic instrumental album than a more traditional prog metal album. The track that can be considered a more traditional prog metal track is the second track, "Dreaming Deja Vue". In my humble opinion, "Wizard's Eyes" is an album with wide range of deep guitar works and keyboards palettes based on groovy and powerful rhythm section. It sounds more as a progressive jazz fusion album with a dazzling guitar work.

About the tracks, the album consists of eleven instrumental compositions clocking in at fifty three minutes with most of the tunes running around the five minute range, a couple shorter and a couple longer. It seems that each of the eleven tracks on this album has its own story and mood. The compositions are all more complex and grand in style and scope than you might imagine at a first listen. By complex I'm referring to the constantly changing nature, fast to slow, start and stop, call and response, and even guitar interplay with the other performers. At times the music is very smooth and dreamy but that might just as easily be backed up with some crunchy riffs later on. The opener, "A Secret Journey" is a very nice combination of guitar riffs and spacey keyboards and a rock solid rhythm section. The addition of spoken word parts are a nice delicate touch. As I said before, "Dreaming Deja Vue" is the most typical prog metal track on the album. "Fantasia" is a jazzy ballad with sensual piano lines. "Friends" is a number with a smooth jazz sort of feel that veers off into more spacey territory. Other tracks, like "Empire V" combine a light mood with a technical rhythm with spacey keyboards. "Haribol" is one of those compositions where you can hear the acoustic sitar. "Horizon" with its beautiful soaring guitar melodies and nice synthesizer solo is a welcome rest point. The title track and "To The Sky" combining different progressive elements into the songs, mood and tempo changes, powerful parts that go alongside subtle keyboards parts and lots of soloing. "Outro" and "The Cold Spring" bonus track are also two nice tracks.

Conclusion: "Wizard's Eyes" will appeal to a fairly broad audience and prog guitar melodic fans will like it. Even the jazz rock and fusion fans should take a listen to it because there are lots of elements to discover on this interesting album. At times the music goes off in different musical directions and the songs feature lots of musical change ups and changing guitar sounds. Paradoxically, for a supposed prog metal album, we can find on it progressive jazz fusion with a touch of metal. Velychko impressed me with his skillful guitar. He is technically very skilled. The keyboard parts and the other instruments played on the album bring the so needed diversity to this album, besides an excellent rhythm section. If you like jazz fusion, this is a very interesting and surprising proposal. Check this album and you'll not regret.

Prog is my Ferrari. Jem Godfrey (Frost*)

 Wizard's Eyes by INSIDE THE SOUND album cover Studio Album, 2017
4.03 | 95 ratings

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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by memowakeman
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator

4 stars A great prog album with a strong jazz metal flavor!

Prog music is alive and kicking in the whole globe, there are countless musicians whose undeniable talent is looking for new listeners, aiming to be discovered. Inside the Sound provides a very solid album in which Max Velychko takes the leadership helped by some other great musicians, so they can create a pretty cool instrumental album that prog rock and metal fans cannot miss. Wizard's Eyes is a journey through several atmospheres, nuances and passages, so it is impossible to feel bored here, in fact, you will be hit by every of its songs.

It opens with 'Intro: A Secret Journey', a blast of prog-metal-jazz at its finest; the keyboards make smooth nuances while guitar and bass let us know they are very skilled musicians. With 'Dreaming Deja Vue' I learned that the band would not offer plain melodies, due to its richness of sounds and styles. I am saying this because on this track there is even a kind of disco passage in which I wanted to dance; then, the metal orientation and those jazzy notes are back and remain evident.

'Fantasia' starts softly with delicate piano, later, the other instruments join and together build a new structure that takes us to even some spacey lands. Here I llike a lot the work of drums and bass. 'Friends' has a softer sound overall; I wouldn't say this is a metal piece, though it does have its textures. Actually, this reminds me a bit of some Steve Vai's moments. I like how the tracks are very different from one another. 'Empire V' is another track that could be danceable, its rhythm has some kind of Latin touches due to the use of percussion, while guitars present different solos and produce that heavy energy that comes like an injection.

What a musical journey we're experiencing here, so 'Haribol' has even the addition of a sitar, so you can imagine how nice it sounds athough its participation is brief. In this track there are also some chants, so the feeling is peaceful and deep. Great track and once again, very different and unique. Of course, the sound of the guitar still kicks asses here and in every track. This is one of my favorite songs, by the way. 'Horizon' has an emotional feeling, after a minute and a half it becomes softer, like a ballad, but then the guitar share heartfelt solos.

The metal feeling returns with 'Wizard's Eyes' in which some 80s and 90s prog metal bands come to my mind. It also has a jazzy feeling but it is not that strong, however, I think this title track might be the favorite of prog metal lovers. 'To The Sky' is the longest composition here but it passes so quickly, the song is very dynamic and it naturally flows. As you can imagine, there are several passages here led by guitars, but the atmosphere created by keyboards, bass and drums are incredible so I can truly enjoy this track. Then the journey is almost over, so 'Outro' appears and gives us a minute of tranquility, in which the music vanishes and the journey ends.

However, there is a nice bonus track entitled 'The Cold Spring', which is not the best of the album, but it is an enjoyable and relaxing piece. Thanks to Andrew Nazarenko for introducing me to this band. Of course, I would recomment this record to any prog lover who aims to discover new instrumental music.

Enjoy it!

 Wizard's Eyes by INSIDE THE SOUND album cover Studio Album, 2017
4.03 | 95 ratings

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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by siLLy puPPy
Special Collaborator PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic

4 stars Although the Ukrainian band INSIDE THE SOUND began merely as a side project of guitarist / keyboardist Max Velychko (most notably from Modern Rock Ensemble as well as Karfagen, Sunchild and Hoggwash) and bassist Dmitry Trifonov while working on other projects, the promise of fusing all the love of their disparate genres of music proved too tempting not to engage in a fully realized development of the band's potential. While sort of put on the shelf for a few years with only sporadic recordings emerging, they found enough quality material to release a debut titled "Time Z" in 2010. What may have seemed like a one shot release as the years slowly sputtered by, it turns out that Velychko and Trifonov were simply taking their sweet time to carefully craft the perfecting qualities that took the template laid out on "Time Z" and further expand into unthinkable arenas. The result is that finally in the year 2017, INSIDE THE SOUND has finally released the second long awaited album in the form of WIZARD'S EYES and although i wasn't aware of this band at the time of their debut, i have to say that for fan's who were holding their breath for a new release can finally exhale and take in an exhilarating new inhalation of some of the most pleasing progressive symphonic prog meets metal i've encountered in a while.

While "Time Z" laid down the foundations of an Allan Holdsworth type of instrumental progressive rock sound complete with heavy rocking guitar laced with jazz-fusion compositional styles, WIZARD'S EYES takes everything that came before and perfects them and then adds a plethora of new ideas and sounds to the mix. The core trio remains the same with Velychko performing exquisite guitar workouts and atmospheric keyboard nuances while Dmitry Trifonov returns for bass duties as does Max Didenko on drums. Also new to the band's sound is the inclusion of four guest musicians, each offering a unique stamp on the band's already established and accomplished sound. The biggest contributors are Indranila who adds his Indo-raga charms on acoustic sitar and Vedic chanting as well as Nila Goal who supplies a nice touch of tabla that is interspersed judiciously throughout the album. The track "Friends" receives the royal treatment with two more guests in the form of Antony Kalugin on extra keys and Daniel Ilyin on electric violin. The combo effect of all these musicians in tandem creates some of the most divinely pleasing melodic progressive metal that while does include some steaming hot metal outbursts, more often than not tends to merely simmer in progressive rock stews.

While the album is touted as a prog metal journey into instrumental fantasy worlds of epic proportions, WIZARD'S EYES is far more varied and magical than that mere title insinuates. Graced with superior production techniques and intricate compositional flows, the album begins quite nicely with an almost soundtrack type of orchestration that slowly but surely ratchets up the the drive and intensity that finally erupts into a more heightened tension as it bursts into a heavier form of rock with great care paid to every detail. The opening track "Intro: A Secret Journey" truly sounds like a jazz-fusion project of the great Allan Holdsworth only on a higher energy level with a Steve Vai sort of prog metal infusion that at times reminds me of some of the more adventurous antics on his "Passion and Warfare" album. While the jazz meets metal thing is the underpinning of it all, the music is laced with intricate symphonic polyrhythms and counterpoints that add smooth atmospheric suavity to the metallic guitar riffs and jarring time signature workouts. "Dreaming Deja Vue" ratchets up these very attributes of the music with exquisite instrumental interchanges and driving dynamic shifts. "Fantasia" is more of a jazzy ballad with sensual piano lines providing the melodic underpinning while the guitar solos are the most reminiscent of Vai on the album.

"Friends" is a quirky number that provides a smooth jazz sort of feel that veers off into more spacey territory and delivers outstanding key and violin solos. "Empire V" reveals a subdued influence of Eastern European folk music as the melodic developments hint of the virtuoso guitar compositions of Serbia's Borislav Mitic however Velychko displays some of his most creative guitar soloing on this track that successfully creates a lighter than a feather weightlessness to the sound. "Haribol" is the most exotic sounding track with the inclusion of the sitar and Vedic chanting that offer a taste of musical curry and naan. "Horizon" delivers yet another midrange rocker while the title track provides the album's most scorching hot metal track complete with rapid fire guitar riffing and percussive overdrive as well as interesting counterpoints delivered by the exotic flair of the keyboard approaches. It also offers some of the most intense progressive time signature workouts making it one of the most daring tracks to be heard. For me the weaker tracks on the album arise at the end as "To The Sky," "Outro" and "The Cold Spring (which is considered a bonus track) seem to run on auto pilot where the album needs to go out on a bang but instead finds a comfort zone.

INSIDE THE SOUND has crafted a beautifully manufactured product on WIZARD'S EYES that displays all the details and loving touches that all the years of creation incur. The musicians are of top calibre and meld their respective talents together in a seamless fashion with strong compositions to boot. The production is crystal clear and offers a plethora of subtle touches that make blasting this on full decibelage a true delight. While this is almost a perfect product for me as a huge lover of both Allan Holdsworth and Steve Vai, i have to admit that sometimes the influences are a wee bit too strong in their direction despite the compositions maintaining a fierce independence streak that gives the album a unique charisma. Overall an impressive sophomore offering from the Ukraine with only a few tracks at the end fizzling out the excitement of hearing these dedicated musicians hard at work. WIZARD'S EYES is indeed a magnificent display of intricate musicianship that shows a true depth in musical tastes. The term progressive metal will surely be misleading because while the progressive term remains a constant throughout the album's 51 minute and 44 second run, the metal part does not partake as much with the majority of the album falling somewhere in the orchestrated ambient rock universe with the metal riffing and soloing only emerging part time. While personally i would prefer a few more heavy hitting numbers, i have to admit that the skills displayed on this album make me think of what i wanted the Liquid Tension Experiment albums to sound like because the care and scrutiny of every detail is impressive indeed. A worthy and heavier companion piece to the Modern Rock Ensemble project. Excellent.

 Wizard's Eyes by INSIDE THE SOUND album cover Studio Album, 2017
4.03 | 95 ratings

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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by FragileKings
Prog Reviewer

5 stars A very special package arrived in my mailbox one afternoon, a couple of weeks ago. "Wizard's Eyes" by the Ukrainian guitar wizard Max Velychko's band project, Inside the Sound, is the long-awaited sophomore album. An instrumental project started by Velychko and bass guitarist Dmitry Trifonov in the mid-2000's, the project became a serious focus of these two in 2007 when a drummer and keyboard player were added. Their debut album, "Time Z" was released in 2010 and it has been a long wait for the second release.

As the liner notes inside the digipak explain, "We have always been influenced by guitar heros, prog-rock projects, even jazz-fusion and modern electronic indie styles of music." This easily lets you know what to expect on this album, and the results are very intelligent and pleasing music. With so much time to put it all together (six years for some songs while others were written in the early stages of the project and re-arranged for this album), the album plays out very smoothly with each track expertly crafted. After the first two listens, my thoughts were, "What if Allan Holdsworth (God rest his soul but give him a guitar just to be sure) and Bill Bruford had done a project together in the recent past and invited Steve Vai to add some solos here and there?"

This album is a success for as many reasons for what it isn't as for what it is. As Velychko is a skilled guitarist, this could easily have been and guitar instrumental album with loads of focus on the guitarist's talent. This could have been packed with awesome riffs, searing solos, and multi-tracked guitar parts. It isn't any of those things. As much as Velychko is a star here, the other band members are a very important part of the compositions. There is a variety of keyboard sounds and some solos, giving us warm, cosmic effects, mechanical moods, jazzy leanings, and cold outdoor atmospherics all depending where they are needed to enhance and create an effect in the music. The drumming is not over the top but restrained when it needs to be, much as I have felt about Bruford on his solo album, "One of a Kind", and when the bass comes to the forefront at the beginning of "To the Sky", it's such a welcome treat.

One thing that is easy to appreciate about this album is the selection of music and ordering of the songs. There are heavy, grooving rockers in "Dreaming Deja Vue" and the title track, slower, beautiful tracks in "Fantasia", "Friends", and "Horizon", but mostly a very pleasant range of sounds and mid-tempo meters throughout the album. There's a guest sitar player on "Haribol" and a tabla player on "Empire V" and "Horizon". Some of the guitar solos have that melodic metal sound, others are more jazz-fusion. I feel after each listen that the every track has been treated with the greatest of care in putting it all together for the album. A curious thing is the "bonus track", "The Cold Spring". Though the mood is certainly unique on the album (indeed I feel like I can hear water running under ice with bare fields of wet, brown straw mottled with lingering patches of snow), the music itself is just as wonderfully impressive as any other track on the album. I wonder why it was treated as a bonus track. Certainly though, it's a welcome addition to the tracklist.

One final word of praise for this album, the total running time is about 53 minutes which is just perfect. Again, every track has purpose and delivers it beautifully. There are no tracks I feel are trying to fill a quota of time length and I believe keeping the length to a reasonable less-than-an-hour leaves the listener satisfied without want or without feeling that the album is stretching. It's a wonderful listening experience.

If you are interested in hearing this, I highly recommend it. Though Max and Co. can rock it, most of the music isn't particularly heavy nor is it showy and unnecessarily complex or "weird". Instead, the album delivers a diverse palette of sounds that are easy to enjoy and invite frequent replays.

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4.03 | 95 ratings

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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by Matti
Prog Reviewer

4 stars As this artist is categorized here under progressive metal - and I'm generally very little interested in metal genres -, I'm surprised to enjoy the album as much as I do. Quite likely this will be among my favourite instrumental rock albums of this year. Guitarist Max Velychko has been involved in several bands, but to me his playing was familiar only from the last year's album of MODERN- ROCK ENSEMBLE. The core of Inside The Sound are Velychko (guitars, keyboards, composer) and bassist Dmitri Trifonov (bass, co- composer on two tracks). Drums are shared by two guys, and some tracks feature guests.

This instrumental music full of power. Of course there's the guitar-heavy metal style present on most tracks, but the metal ingredient leaves plenty of room for other nuances too. The spacey keys work excellently together with the roaring guitars that are sonically not restricted to the angry metal sound. Velychko is one hell of a guitarist! My musical associations happen to be Finnish artists: Time Traveller and Low Budget Orchestra are one-man bands centred on heroic guitarism, and Inside The Sound easily beats them both. There's a sense of space rock, comparable to MOONWAGON. And what's best, the music has the vitality of jazz-rock and fusion. And the compositions are pretty progressive too. So, this album can sincerely be recommended to listeners of the mentioned genres.

Every third given rating here is five stars, and I sure sympathize with that. I'm undecided between 4 and 5 stars myself. The production is superb, as well as the playing. There are no weak tracks. Perhaps in the end the high-tempo energy gets a bit too overwhelming on the course of the 53-minute album. But remember, this comment comes from a listener favouring emotional aspect over technical bravado and power in music. [A little detail in the running order feels slightly questionable: with 'Intro' and 'Outro' the whole would have formed a coherent arch, if the relatively calm 'The Cold Spring' would have come somewhere earlier instead of being a "bonus track".]

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4.03 | 95 ratings

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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by TopPoint

5 stars Familiar with the game of guitarist Max Velichko on the projects Sunchild & Carthage. When he found out that he had his own instrumental project, he was very happy and interested. After a short search I found two albums, I was really glad to it. After listening to the first album, I immediately switched to the second one, which has the name "wizard's eyes". The album is uniquely more mature than the first, in music the influences of such styles are heard; jazz, progressive rock and metal, fusion, in places you can hear something from Vedic culture. You can also hear a lot of experiments in music, there are electronic sounds, and the lack of a keyboard player in the group (in the first album he was) is not noticeable, since Max independently played keyboards, skillfully and gracefully. Very pleased with the variety of musical moods, here there is also expression and lyrics and atmosphere and flight, indeed, everyone thinks they will find something of their own, I found. This album is for me the opening this year, now I look forward to continue!
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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by Progunklebear

5 stars This album Inside The Sound discovered by accident, and to my surprise, after listening to several songs, I was delighted. From the first track, I was carried away on an exciting secret journey, in which I wanted to be again and again. Rhythms, sizes, sounds, everything attracted to itself its mystery and secrets. What is Dejavu is not completely known, but it's safe to say that the second track from the Wizard's Eyes album accurately conveys this unexplored feeling. Fantasia - you can close your eyes and everyone can see their own, individual fantasies, it's definitely nice. Friends, this is an unusual composition, in which there is a solo on an electric violin and a synthesizer, it was impossible to catch on to something, the music constantly entails. Empire V a very sharp, you can say a daring track, but nevertheless very melodic and perceptive. Haribol... here you can be a little pondered, everything came together, music, Vedic singing, sitar sounds, chic music. The sea, the sunset of the sun, the cry of seagulls, the warm and gentle water, the sound of the surf, all this from the composition Horizon. The eyes of the magician, this is truly a masterpiece of Progressive Metal, instrumental of course) Here you can see magical changes of sizes, heavy guitar riffs, breathtaking solos, unexpected finale. The album cover is very suitable for this topic. In the sky, do not want to comment, music speaks for itself, flight of thoughts, flight of fantasy, higher and higher and only up! I can say with confidence that this album is very worthy, along with such outstanding guitarists as Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Marty Friedman. My score is five stars. I recommend everyone to audition, and a group of luck and prosperity!
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Wizard's Eyes
Inside The Sound Progressive Metal

Review by KapiToshka

5 stars I'll put 5 stars to this record, 'cause "Wizard's Eyes" by Inside The Sound is one of the best instrumental albums I've ever listened to. It is more progy than their previous album "timeZ". It also has better production. I like all tracks in it, my personal favourites are "Dreaming Deja Vue", "Empire V" 'cause of their incredible rhythm parts and "Horizon", "To The Sky" 'cause of their awesome & tasty guitar melodies. This record has also smth special for ya: sitar, weddic vocal work, guest keyboard solo from Anton Kalugin (Sunchild, Karfagen, etc.). So if u are a fan of instrumental guitarists like John Petrucci or Steve Vai sure this album is 4 u. I wish all the best to these guys and waitin' for the 3rd one :)
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