Review of Revoe - Revolution of Essence
Yeah! The sax was the first thing that made me stop and pay attention ("Heavy Weather Feast" is my fav!). Not because it’s doing anything wild, but because it changes the feel of the songs every time it shows up. A lot of bands would just throw in another guitar or keyboard layer there. Revoe went a different way and it works. The riffs are strong enough to carry the record on their own anyway. That’s important. A lot of progressive metal gets buried under its own arrangements. Here the songs still lean on actual riffs. Some of them hit closer to old heavy metal than modern prog, which I liked straight away. Piotr Sierzputowski is doing a lot here. Guitar, vocals, most of the main writing by the sound of it. The songs can stretch pretty far out, but they always come back to that central guitar line. There’s a lot packed into this album. Folk melodies show up here and there, some jazz touches, bits where the songs slow down and breathe before picking back up. It could have gon...
