To paraphrase a certain “veteran” vocalist best known for fronting bands with a colour in their name – “’Ere’s and Album For Ya”.
A rather spectacular effort from Eternity’s End which appears to be a vehicle for the rather spectacular (shredtacular?) guitar talents of Christian Muenzner.
This geezer can very, very fast yet with plenty of feel and technique. Not simply speed for the sake of showing off.
Muenzner isn’t an artist I’d heard of. I stumbled on to this by accident when checking out Ian Parry’s Rock Emporium release (review here) and finding on his web site that he’d done the vocals on this Eternity’s End project.
One listen of the pre-release video of the title track and I was in…….
What we have here is a sort of hybrid fusion of rifferama that wouldn’t have been out of place back in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal glory years, neoclassical progressive metal type stuff and even a bit of a jacked up jazzy feel thrown in with the keys.
I think I read an interview somewhere recently with Edguy/Avantasia main man Tobias Samet in which he said something like: “If something’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing”. Man, how true is that?
Muenzner has applied that philosophy here with Eternity’s End. And it works to ridiculous extremes. His guitar work is jaw-droppingly awesome. Fast, loud, technical, never less than enthralling. The riffs are huge. So are the solos. Some serious, serious shredding going on here. He’s all over it and then some.
But everything else works too. Not simply “look at me, aren’t I a great guitarist.” Jimmy Pitts performs keyboards to match Muenzner’s speed and power. The interplay is something to behold. Hannes Grossmann drums up a storm. They must have cloned him so fast does he drum to keep up with the guitars and keys. Linus Klausenitzer steadies the ship nicely with his bass.
Then we have Ian Parry. A towering vocal performance indeed. Full of grace, power and melody. Effortless. Supreme.
Check out the title track here. Gives you a good taster of what Eternity’s End deliver.
https://youtu.be/GvGqZChceds
It’s not all in your face power-prog-metal. Parry brings some nice melody to things to. A fine example being on The Hourglass. Heavy has anything, melodic as anything. Catchy as you like. Gets in your head and stays there.
Bombastic, overblown, immensely listenable, thoroughly enjoyable. All adjectives apply here.
For once an impulse purchase I have not lived to regret……………quite the opposite. Two closing words: Buy It.
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