Eclipse - Lunacy
Cost: $2.00
Date: 2005
Picked this one up as an ambiguous-looking indie. The cover art and last song ("Mr. Turtle") didn't seem metal at all, so it was ultimately the band photo collage (all longhairs, and one member is wearing a leather jacket in almost every pic) that prompted me to take a chance. I remember not being initially impressed and putting the CD aside. Fast foward a couple of years, and I notice the CD is being touted online as rare indie thrash. Was I remembering the music incorrectly?
Nope, just unscrupulous sellers trying to generate interest in the disc.
There's a lot of heavy metal technique and tone in the guitar playing, but that doesn't translate into a metal album. Initially the CD shifts between heavy alternative rock (with funky influences interwoven into the riffs) and melancholic hard rock (2 songs on the album are clean guitar-driven ballads). Then we get to the Sabbathy "Solitude," a modern/groove metal song with a main riff reminiscent of "Children of the Grave." "Hideaway" (with its harmonized guitars) and "Hall of the Dancer" (with its galloping main riff) definitely exhibit metal guitarwork, but the vocals and flat, mid-tempo drumming (which I suspect is a drum machine) pull things away from being total metal. So yeah, not particularly musically satisfying for me.
Don't be fooled. Obscure? Seems like it. But it's not a metal indie release, thrash or otherwise.
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