Bilateral (album)

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Bilateral
Studio album by Leprous

Publication
(s)

August 2011

admission

Spring 2011

Label (s) InsideOut Music

Title (number)

10

running time

58:05

occupation
  • Guitar: Øystein Landsverk
  • Bass : Rein Blomquist
  • Drums : Tobias Ørnes Andersen

Studio (s)

Ivory Shoulder Studios
Juke Joint Studios
Kulturkirken

chronology
Tall Poppy Syndrome
(2009) 		Bilateral Coal
(2013)

Bilateral is the second studio album by the Norwegian progressive metal band Leprous . It was released by InsideOut Music in August 2011 .

Creation and publication

The debut album Tall Poppy Syndrome was followed by concerts with Ihsahn , Opeth , Pagan's Mind and Therion . The second album was recorded in spring 2011. Ihsahn was involved as a guest singer, Vegard Sandbukt played the trumpet. Jens Bogren mixed and mastered bilaterally at Fascination Street Studios .

Track list

  1. Bilateral - 4:00
  2. Forced Entry - 10:20
  3. Restless - 3:30
  4. Thorn - 5:47
  5. Mb. Indifferentia - 6:33
  6. Waste of Air - 5:32
  7. Mediocrity Wins - 6:07
  8. Cryptogenic Desires - 2:45
  9. Acquired button - 5:13
  10. Painful Detour - 8:18 am

style

Leprous play varied Progressive Metal with influences from Alternative Metal on the album . There are also “ funky moments, reminiscences of the classic, rhythmically shaped Prog , AOR , psychedelic sounds, tricky passages, wonderful melodies, massive riffs and fast, complicated staccato passages ”. The singing is melodic, mostly high and occasionally screeching. Occasionally, comparisons are made to Porcupine Tree , Pain of Salvation , Opeth , Mr. Bungle, and King Crimson .

reception

The album was positively received by the press. Tobias Blum from Rock Hard praises: "The Norwegians have a huge repertoire and yet always sound focused and accessible." For Peter Kubaschk from powermetal.de , Bilateral is "an absolutely independent, idiosyncratic and unique album", too, despite one or two reminiscences Thomas Kohlruß from Babyblauen Seiten finds it “despite its variety of styles not torn, tried or fragmented […], no, the album floats loosely, happily, freshly out of the boxes, as if from one piece. Leprous free themselves by not paying homage to clichés (but using some of them skillfully), but simply distilling original music from the influences they enjoy. ” Eclipsed magazine included Bilateral in its list of prog metal milestones.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Leprous - Bilateral , insideoutmusic.com , accessed December 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Leprous. Bilateral , Baby Blue Pages , accessed December 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ Alex Henderson: Bilateral from Allmusic , accessed on December 22, 2012.
  4. ^ Peter Kubaschk: Leprous - Bilateral , powermetal.de , accessed on December 22, 2012.
  5. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 31.