FRACTURE - review added 25th October 2010
Album Review: Simple Chaos (2010)
For fans of: Prog Metal... and playing the same thing over and over
Australian band Fracture - currently David Bellion on vocals, Tony Markou and Joe Kostof on guitars, and Mark Degiorgio on drums - have been around for a couple of years. "Simple Chaos" marks their first release...and both excellent and disappointing it is too.
The style is a rich progressive metal with huge screaming vocals and a massive wall of sound encompassing everything. It's the first thing that strikes home: just how vast the album is. If depth of sound was measured in kilograms, you'd need a dockyard crane to lift this baby up. The performances are okay throughout. The musicianship is fine if not outstanding.
The real problem comes as you listen through the various tracks. At the start, "Simple Chaos" sounds astonishing...but then it becomes clear the band has one style and sticks to it. They head off down various alleyways and musical junctions, but they never stray at all far. It can be hard telling one track from the next. In fact, it's only the soft final entry that dares to be different.
In summation...
This is a VERY one dimensional record, but it's a reasonably nice dimension so we'll (partially) let them off.
Check out... One track, then you've heard them all.
Track List:
01. Unidentified
02. Frame of Mind
03. Rearranged
04. The Grand Illusion
05. Simple Chaos
06. Without End
07. The Killing Kind
08. A Common Thread
09. The Wish
Label: Nightmare Records
Artist's website(s): MySpace | Facebook
