Aldious - Unlimited Diffusion (Review)

Guys, hold on to everything you can grab for. Today we have review on Aldious new album. As you guessed it, impression of the album as a whole is positive. The album is not the best, but this time they are pleased again.

My rating: 80/100

Source: www.metal-archives.com

In this album we hear same thing as in the previous. Really. "Radiant A" you can not listen at all - you will lose a little. Another strange look is the composer's attempt to portray versatility. More precisely, composers - influence of several (three or four) persons is felt. However, usually playing pretty good heavy / power metal, they suddenly started playing pop music in style of Scandal. And tracks Dilemma and Go away are very similar to thrash metal in style of late Overkill, which, incidentally, loves Yoshi. Well, we've heard from them for a long time, for example, in Dear Slave or Luft. But why release songs with low speed and a simple pattern? They break atmosphere of this album.

Emotions, problems and just some shots from life situations - narrating person shows a perfectly understandable picture. I can't say that it's a good lyrical theme - almost everyone can write this. But here you can feel professional work on lyric - it fits well with instrumental.

Vocals are bad again. So bad that I don't want to write about it. No, I don't want to say that Rino is not worthy of this place. But this level of abilities is typical for beginners, but not for a specialist with 15 years of experience. Her beauty is weak consolation. If it were not for Rino - I could put the album an rating of 90-93 out of 100.

Instrumental is wonderful. Yoshi and Toki showed an excellent skill level. Guitar seemed to be specially created for this album - so interesting ideas come true. Sawa also perfectly performs difficulty parts. It's also a good idea to use a upright bass on recording. But she could perform at least one solo on bass for example, as in Other World. Yes, she has a small segment in In This World, but it's hard to call solo. Well, the compositions are very well arranged. Nevertheless, they don't cover Marina's shortcomings. Drummer again acts according to a strictly limited patterns. No improvisation. Okay, no one is perfect. If she had a mother's surname - Yoshimoto - one could say that she plays well. But she has a father's surname - Bozzio. And from daughter of legendary drummer you will involuntarily want to hear something more than a narrow patterns. Senri Kawaguchi, who is about 10 years younger than Marina, performs more interesting without having famous parents. This fact makes you think.

Stable, long-playing projects may seem boring. Unfortunately, this is their side effect - there is always a temptation to repeat previous successful work. Here we see a repetition of previous work, but who said that this is bad? Still need to work on the shortcomings, but this project is in good hands. And I hope that they will release many interesting releases.