Galifax - Kraski Sterty (Review)

Band Halifax is not a metal band in the classical sense of this word. This is a creative association of people, which is focused on metal music popularization. This project exists since 2014 and during this time they did not officially have a constant line-up. Nevertheless, they have already managed to release a good album. And recently they released another album, about which I'll tell you today.

My Rating: 62/100

I thought that an unfamiliar format would have a big influence on the quality of methods for solving artistic tasks. And I can not say that I was wrong: there is something in this plan that can be traced. Here you can hear typical power metal (1 track), typical heavy metal with a lot of melody (4, 5, 9 tracks), something between heavy and power metal (3, 7 tracks) and even something epic (2 , 6 tracks).

Overall structure looks pretty simple. Non-traditional format of metal project had a great influence: it seems that composer had little understanding of instrumentalists advantages and disadvantages. Composer's work can not be called very difficult. It's noticeable that work is rather superficial: initially there was not any specific idea - composer took as a basis the previous album and just naled the standard solutions. There is also an attempt to hide many shortcomings with the help of a huge number of scales on guitar. Well, that's a good idea. But one such solution is impossible to hide everything. Well, the sound was very cool.

Vocalist is excellent. But it seems that composer simply showed the vocalist the lyrics and said "Sing!". Vocal parts can not be called very diverse, but it's performed excellent. Noticeable is the minimal voice processing - sound designer was not afraid to show all vocalist's abilities.

At first glance, the instrumental parts look cool - here you can hear interesting shades of performance, characteristic for professionals. But when you start listening carefully, that "coolness" ends on two instruments - guitar and synthesizer. Guitar has a lot of melodic parts, a lot of scales. From such a number of scales can begin a real ringing in your ears. Guitar also participates in rhythm section, but this does not accentuate. You can also notice a large number of keyboards. Synthesizer is used very competently and the sound is very diverse. Rhythm section - everything is very predictable here. Bassist has a small segment at the beginning of 6th track. All the rest - ordinary patterns. Approximately the same with drums. At a slow tempo there was invented something interesting, but in general - ordinary patterns.

I can call this release good. The overall sound makes a good impression, but the album is superficial and one-sided. I would like to say that composer needs to work more closely on some segments. But for a project from Russia more than 3 years of existence - this is the period after which fundamentally nothing will change. The only thing that can change here is the names in the column "above the album worked" and the costs of promotion.