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"Between Wild Landscapes and Deep Blue Seas" is the seventh full length studio album from Progressive Metal band Hollow Haze, released July 12th, 2019 through Frontiers Records.
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A second coming for Hollow Haze – as founding guitarist Nick Savio disbanded the progressive metal band after six albums in 2015 to join Fabio Lione in Eternal Idol, leaving after their debut album The Unrevealed Secret to restart the former band in 2017. Gaining a new vocalist and drummer, the quartet release their seventh studio record with a flowery title of Between Wild Landscapes and Deep Blue Seas. A proper time to embrace new horizons within the comfortable framework of the group – and you’ll discover through these eleven songs a bit more of a modern rock touch and melodic sophistication to the already established power/progressive music, riffs, and performances.
The modern rock side comes out in the pacing and riff/tempo combinations for a track like “A Different Sky” – it’s not dumbed down in the slightest, the transitions giving a progressive touch while the melodies again capture your imagination and carry you swinging comfortably to the hooks, the bluesy solo magnificent and thoughtful. Most of the material sits in a focused four to five-minute window, subscribing to a get in/get out philosophy that is direct and just enough to execute the musical thoughts without overwhelming the listener.
Considering Hollow Haze has been on as many labels over the years as they’ve released records, Between Wild Landscapes and Deep Blue Seas could be the right time for Frontiers Music to give the band a bigger, more deserved push. If you love the more recent outings of Dynazty, older Savatage, and others in that melodic European power/progressive metal mold, this record should resonate well for you.
Reviewed by Matt Coe for deadrhetoric.com.
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