I really like the instrumental parts of each every "Elder" song although they take about ten minutes. Surya from Cadiz, Spain, are the compact version of Elder playing organic and harmonic riffs with a warm tone between 3 and 8 minutes and they have a powerful voice which fits perfect to their music. The album starts with the instrumental ‘Evergreen River’ which eposes already all the facets of the upcoming album within two minutes.
Without pause, the heavy riffs of ‘A Blazing Crusade’ pave the way in a psycho-progressive space with nineties reminiscences. Its strong rhythmic base drives the vocal melodies taking us to an epic space with a scent of times gone by.
With great thunder, ‘Through the Stone’ recreates those sounds with which the band grew up. Firm and powerful, the track gallops briskly through a sandy environment. it looks as if the band is squeezing the essence of Elder into a more compact corset.
That Stoner spirit manifests itself with greater force in ‘Beyond Eyes of Gold’, a stampede of diffuse riffs that slow down giving way to beautiful melodic passages marked by a captivating voice.
‘Arrows’ with its dark tone and atmosphere of alternative vibrations sees its drummer Carlos doing the main voice in a song. Between epic tones and progressive passages, the modulation of the melody takes us on a ride through different moods and styles.
"Clashing" is a more rock-oriented way to do another Elder song in its half time
The band puts the epilogue to the album with ‘Shields at the Dawn Forest’. A fifteen-minute song of sonic intensity through emotional, heavy and divergent soundscapes. Needless to say that this highly talented band exceeds their previous composer skills on a multi dimensional way to interpret Progressive Rock. This is the absolute climax of an album with no fillers.
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