The Hourglass -To the land of the Free(7/10)-Syria-2004
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Independent
Playing time: 56:16
Tracklist:
Pilgrimage
Trapped
Holy Rage
Plane of Cockroaches
Of revenge and glory
Ancient Hope (Part1-Denial)
The city of the Evil Ones
Final Departure Stamp
Deceptive Light
Risen
The land of the Free

After the storm ' Nu.clear Down' thus veiled the arrival of the hurricane ' The Houglass' with a sad and beautiful album, a heavy
metal enough Old school sometimes near to traditional Doom à la Candlemass.
An album in which everything is well finished, the rhythm guitar is not to be neglected, carchy drums and all in smoothness with a good work of
cymbals on " Holy rage " and mainly mid-tempo and sometimes quite heavy and doomy particularly on " Trapped " and " Ancient hope" argued of a discrete bass but which has its place, and very planning keyboards which does not take the over , just the necessary to create this particular ambience. Without forgetting the guitars, which oscillate between acoustic and electricity with soft tonalities and sharp lake a razor blade like a blade at once; particularly on " Pilgrimage" and "The land of the free ".
This album can be listened easily like any wafer of this style, for good to appreciate it, you just have to avoid listening to it very often to appreciate more. With melancholic parts and dreamily energy which transports you all along the disc, you will have your amount of calm passages on one hand and a batch of speed on the other hand . Also with very good arrangements for an Independent band and especially an achieved work on this flood of heavy metal singing with a voice reminding me UDO of "Accept", and Allen Russell "symphony X", it is undeniable because you will deal with several types of different voices on this SKEUD that can go up as much very high on " Deceptive light " or straightforwardly of the speech on " Final departure stamp " .
The Hourglass is rather an epic band in their kind, the compositions constitute a good amount of spleen even if the 2
instrumentals " Of revenge and glory " and " Risen " which appears in the beautiful medium of this small jewel waste a little bit the environment .
A disc of which it's hard to get rid due to this professional and spellbinding work that Syrian trio offers to us.
this Skeud assures us that Syria is the fatherland where operate sacred Arab heavy metal beasts .

Reviewed by +Ben+ English translation by N0cturnus

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