REALITY CHECK

Reality Check a young band from Spain but with known musicians in their respective fields, in this case progressive rock/progressive metal, coming from bands like Banshee being most well known by prog listners. Formed around 2012, they released their debut in 2019 named Fears, hope and eternity. The album is well balanced between prog rock and prog metal, subtle arrangements on both sides, with nice vocal parts, energic playing and some very tastful keyboards parts. Ovi Abascal has a powerful voice that is fiting very well in this context, a perfect example is the longest pieces of the album Everything is Ruined, clocking around 13 min is pure joy, well constructed with some tasteful keyboards/guitars parts. In fact all album is well orchestrated and has some really good instrumental sections, the guys knowing to handle the instruments. Another great tune is Fragile no more, remind me of some Black Sabbath atmosphere, but in the end is a quite intresting. So all in all a good towards great progressive metal album, bordering progressive rock in many parts, solid musicianship and well dome performance. Little known in prog circles, I guess desearve more, fans of the genre can easy take a spin. Dream Thater, Vanden Plas, DGM (Mark Basile from DGM appear on opening track as vocalist) as influences ,etc 3,5 stars for sure a nice one from start to finish