This is album number two from India’s premier progressive tech metal band. After his departure from British tech metallers Tesseract, vocalist Dan Tompkins set up camp with Skyharbor after guesting on their Blinding White Noise record. Of course, with this genre straight forward tunes are not the norm so prepared to be challenged as a listener.
With Dan being involved from the get go with this album, it feels as though there is a lot more melody present in each song. Of course, there are delightfully heavy moments as you would be expect from the dentists. Allure is so good and opens up the album. Wonderful odd time signatures, lots of groove, and great vocals by Dan. Evolution goes down that same melodic path. But the heavy and groovy bombs in around the middle and they do that so well. As with all in this genre they know how to use that low end so well, and yet it doesn’t over power.
Miracle starts very low and yet the song evolves though varying phases without losing the melody. Great tune! My favourite track on the album is the final song The Constant. The song starts super slow and eerie with ambient sounds and faint echoey guitar. When the beat and vocals kick in with that super heavy groove man, it’s heavy goosebumps. Big shout out to Anup Sastry on drums, killer fills and grooves.
They haven’t released anything since 2018 so I’m hoping they have something due.
9.5/10 from The Grooveman.
