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Review:
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Estygya (from Barcelona) is another promising new Spanish
prog band (along Senogul, Taifa, Neverness and Albatros)
that sounds very fresh and dynamic on their debut album
entitled Los Ojos Verdes. Most of the music in the 8 songs
is rock-oriented (often Metallica and mid-Seventies Rush
come to my mind) but also delivers a lot of variety and
a very tasteful colouring: from dreamy with wonderful strings
and flute to bombastic with choir-Mellotron-like arrangements
in Preludio, from orchestral keyboards with twanging guitar
and warm Spanish vocals to a slow rhythm with theatrical
vocals and again those majestic choir-Mellotron-like arrangements
in La Fuente De Los Alamos Part I and from dreamy with acoustic
rhythm guitar and Floydian guitarwork to bombastic with
howling electric guitar runs and sumptuous keyboards in
La Fuente De Los Alamos Part III. The two epic compositions
are loaded with moving and howling guitar runs and biting
wah-wah drenched guitar solos and contain lots of interesting
musical ideas like the parts featuring mellow organ and
fat synthesizer flights in La Fuente De Los Alamos II (11.33)
and swinging, Latin-American inspired piano and flute with
acoustic rhythm guitar in the titletrack (19.42). Due to
this tasteful eclectic musical approach and the splendid
guitarplay, Estygya succeeds to keep my attention in every
song. A band to discover! Rating: [3 of 5 Stars!]
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