Artist: Scale The Summit
Title: The Migration
Genre: Progressive Metal / Instrumental Rock
Release Date: 14th June 2013
Label: Prosthetic Records / Sony Music
Album Review
The American ‘Adventurous Metallers’, as they prefer to be called though they get boxed into instrumental Prog Rock/Metal, SCALE THE SUMMIT were formed in 2004. ‘The Migration’ is their fourth albums. With previous ones they’ve gained respect of bands such as DREAM THEATER, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, PROTEST THE HERO and PERIPHERY with whom you might’ve caught them on tour. These guys have gone to the lengths of building and enhancing their own instruments which they keep on mastering. Needless to say they continue on creating the rich, complex and intricately beautiful atmospherics, this time with a new bassist, Mark Michell.
Although dreamy in ample measures there’s a certain build-up of anger and tension not least owing to some disjointed passages within the starting ‘Odyssey’ and the metal-homed faster riffs pulsing and chugging through the more proggy passages. These compositions though instrumental do indeed seem to create stories and this time they seem to settle on naturalistic themes within these landscapes, it seems to speak of the damage we’ve been offsetting. Though it’s not as impressive, which is a bit of a disappointment, as ‘The Collective’ was, it seems less cohesive and more repetitive with ‘Evergreen’ and ‘Sabrosa’ seeming as mere fillers, it’s still a good album to wade into and to immerse oneself in the obvious love these musicians have for their craft.
Tracklist
01 Odyssey
02 Atlas Novus
03 The Olive Tree
04 Narrow Salient
05 Oracle
06 Evergreen
07 The Dark Horse
08 Willow
09 Sabrosa
10 The Traveler
Line-up
Chris Letchford – 7 & 8 String guitars
Mark Michell – 6 string bass
Pat Skeffington – drums, percussion
Travis Levrier – 7 string guitar
Websites
http://www.scalethesummit.com/ / www.myspace.com/scalethesummit
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 7
Sound: 9
Total: 8 / 10
