They seem to be stuck in a loop of mid-paced, mid-volume shredding. On this album sound too similar to each other, without defining characteristics to set them apart. Show off Vivaldi's guitar skill and while actual songwriting takes a backseat. Revelations' biggest flaw is its lack of variation and how it really exists only to Talented on the guitar, but he has difficulty writing songs that show off many other features of If you're looking for a good guitar album, you need to hear this.īut looking at Revelations under the broader scope of prog, things are different.
Memorable, as showcasing the impressive solos takes first priority, not only over the riffs butĮvery other aspect of the music too. Mainly based around shred but including some melodic aspects as well. Vivaldi produces some mindbendingly intense guitar work, Technical soloing, the album's main focus. With overtones of djent, each song is devoid of typical structure. Super-heavy, best described as an album of instrumental, neo-classical shredding rather than any of Tech/extreme prog metal, though he may fit closer under plain prog metal. Posted Friday, Novem| Review this album | Report (Review #2077937)Īngel Vivaldi (according to all sources I've looked at, yes, that is his real name) is listed as Yeah there's talent and great production, but as far as ingenuity, it's all just Slightly lesser effect, from one track to the other. For me, I have nothing against guitar solos, but there has toīe some songcraft to the entire rigmarole, otherwise, it's hard to tell the difference, at least at first glance and even later to a Those that love heavy guitar solo jamming will love this, no doubt. In the end, there really is no satisfaction in listening to it all. It's useless to describe the tracks in that they all sound the Sometimes it makes me wonder if the artistĬan play with emotion, or can they only play rapid fire notes and riffs. Just sound like 4 heavy guitar jamming tracks, without any spotlight on anyone else. The seasons, but they could have just as easily been tracks about each of the individual 3 little pigs and the big bad wolf. Wild jamming tunes that really don't contribute, at least in my mind, to the topic at hand. In other words, there is a hell of a lot of talent in the performance, but not so much in the song craft. With the djent style, you get that crazyĭrumming, which is actually more of a nuisance and actually distracts from everything. Like a very talented individual jamming on his guitar, with a band backing him up. After time, you start to pick out a melody or two, but in the end, it sounds Where each track basically sounds like the last one. What you get here are 4 tracks of extremely ripping guitar
Well, in the case of this EP "Universal Language", not that much.
Does this make the music that the solo guitar artist puts out any better? They use musicians that are just as talented as they are. The neo-guitar gods of today aren't exactly the same as the guitar gods of yesteryear, namely Malmsteen, Vai, or so on. Name has produced, instead of a orchestral work, a 4 track EP of short instrumental guitar heavy tracks in a djent metal style. Just like his namesake before him, Vivaldi has made a song cycle based on the four seasons.
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