Electric Skies
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| Event studio album | ||||
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Publication |
1998 |
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admission |
1997 |
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| Label (s) | Rising Sun Records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
41:52 |
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Shaun Michaud |
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Electric Skies is the debut album of the American progressive metal band Event . It was released on Rising Sun Records in 1998.
Creation and publication
A year after forming at Berklee College of Music , the band recorded their debut album. It was produced by Shaun Michaud. A first edition appeared under the original band name Mystic Fishook. There is conflicting information as to whether Electric Skies was launched in 1998 or 1999.
Track list
- Perfect Illusion - Mirror Image - 6:09
- Weatherman - 4:20
- Tall Bizarre - 4:20
- Muddy Water - 3:41
- Tundra - 3:57
- Walk On - 4:11
- Aimless - 3:32
- The Anger - 3:40
- Full of Stars - 3:19
- Electric Skies - 4:43
style
Event play original progressive metal with fusion influences, lots of breaks and solos as well as electronic effects on the album . While the instrumentation and arrangements are technically virtuoso, the song structures remain largely straightforward. The singing is melodious and often polyphonic.
reception
The album was largely positively received by the press and Events were declared promising newcomers in the genre. Boris Kaiser from Rock Hard praises: “EVENT is also tinkering, as if someone who could only be chased away with hundreds of breaks were after them, but the young four-piece manages to breathe so much life into the (surprisingly short) songs that you can feels reminded of the best times of Sieges even . "For Jörg Graf from Babyblauen Seiten it is an album that" is convincing on the whole and leaves no ambiguous feelings. The mix of dry, hard riffs, crooked beats and synth loops, packed in rather short units, turns out to be very delicate finger food. In addition, there are many other small aspects that refine the appetizers such as fusion bonds, weird fiddling, polyphonic singing - the ideas just bubble into the songs. ”The eclipsed magazine included Electric Skies in its list of prog metal milestones.
Web links
- Electric Skies at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Electric Skies on the baby blue pages
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Greger: EVENT Electric Skies music review by Greger , progarchives.com , accessed December 21, 2012.
- ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Event. Electric Skies , Baby Blue Pages , accessed December 21, 2012.
- ↑ a b Boris Kaiser: Event. Electric Skies , Rock Hard # 145, accessed December 21, 2012.
- ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 31.