GODS OF SILENCE – Neverland

GODS OF SILENCE - Neverland
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ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records
Release date: September 8, 2017

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Gods Of Silence’s album Neverland, is a pleasingly muscular offering of Melodic Metal fare with Progressive inflections, deriving much of its strength from singer Gilberto Meléndez epic voice and emotive delivery. Metal purists who disdain the Melodic Metal tag, imagining a blur of keyboards over upper register vocals, should not pass Neverland by without a fair listen.

Bruno Berger’s playing on the album is restrained; an effective counterpoint to drummer Philipp Eichenberger’s rapid trigger kick pedals, Daniel Pfister’s undulating bass rhythms, and guitarist Sammy Lasagni’s climbing riffs. Meléndez is truly gifted, with a great range and confident delivery that suits the material well. Ostensibly a debut album, though all band members but Meléndez were in KirK prior, making Gods Of Silence more of a relaunch than a new band. This history may help explain why the songwriting is so varied and so good.

“Army of Liars” is an effective, high gear launch the stage for early singles “Full Moon” and the title cut. “Phoenix” lulls the listener into a false sense of security with some gentle keyboard atmospherics before Eichenberger cuts loose. “Demons” has a very Iced Earth vibe, especially during the chorus; follow-up “Wonderful Years” is a reprieve from the fantasy-tinged songs that preceded it — a breakup song with an equally killer chorus. “Alone” is a return to fantasy, with Meléndez lamenting the sorrows being immortal. Neverland closes as strong as it opened with “All My Life”, ending a Melodic Metal album from a band that, debut or relaunch, sounds like they know what they are doing.

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  • Daniel Waters

    Daniel was a reviewer here at Metal Express Radio. Iron Maiden’s Piece Of Mind wasn’t the first Metal album he owned, but it was the one that lifted the lid off his soul when he received the record as a gift on his 15th birthday. He's been a Metal fan ever since. He's probably best known as the author of various Young Adult novels such as the Generation Dead series and the ghost story Break My Heart 1,000 Times, now also a major motion picture entitled I Still See You, starring Bella Thorne. Writing and music, especially Heavy Metal music, has always been inextricably linked in his mind and career. His first paid gig doing any type of writing was for Cemetery Dance, where he wrote a horror-themed music column called Dead Beats, and when he was writing the first Generation Dead novel he had a ritual where he started his writing day with a Metal playlist that kicked off with “Crushing Belial” by Shadows Fall.

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