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Surveillance - "Angelstation"

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Label - Escape Music
Reviewed by: Tommy Hash
Genre: AOR
Country: USA
Language: English
Length: 45:31
Release Date: June 23, 2006
Label:
Escape Music
Band Members: Lee Small (vocals) Connor Emms (guitar)
  Jon Hayward (bass) Daz Wooytton (drums)
     
Track Listing: 1.)- In Motion 8.)-The Holy
  2.)- Burning 9.)- The Ghost In You
  3.)- Reflections 10.)-Awaken (part two)
  4.)-Middleman 11.)-Truth
  5.)- The Primitive Soul  
  6.)-Messiah  
  7.)-Mary (awaken part one)
     
The Review

Mid Period Fates Warning (ala 'Inside Out), and 'Presto/Roll the Bones-era' Rush might have a soft spot in many people's mind's, and maybe there is too much of an emphasis on the world soft, however, you take that darkish production aspect with the groove emphasized AOR atmosphere of bands such as Line of Fire and Glenn Hughes' less bluesy relevant/heavier solo material (think 'From Now On' or 'Feel'), and you have Surveillance's musical approach to modern melodic metal. While vocalist Lee Small tends to sound a bit like Hughes, at lest on the imitateable side (he pulls it off, at least you can tell that there is an influence) and axemen Connor Emms & Rich Williams meld the Lifeson/Matheos/(Eric) Johnson six string slinging throughout the record, the album's richness moves through an atmosphere of heaviness that is driven by power without the need for any overzealous sappiness. ***

Of course, in the world of AOR, we all do like our pop, but we like it heavy too, and 'Angelstation' is just that, heavy. Tracks such as "Reflections," "In Motion," "Mary," and "The Primitive Soul" offer up the hard driving tracks filled with crunch and melody while "The Ghost in You" (no, it's not a 'Furs' cover) offers moody darkness and "Awaken" brings forth an emotional ballad, the latter eventually leading into the closing gloomy heavy number titled "Truth." ***

These guys balance out the technical progressions without going too far into the so-called 'prog-rock' realm (actually, they are nowhere near that, so don't panic, or lose intrest), and trust me, it's for the better. When looking at 'Angelstation,' you can consider it a melodic metal album, but there are periods of harder edged AOR and technicalities that keep the record above par, so until the next record, it will be us that will be waiting in anticipation and keeping 'surveillance' on these guys.

 

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