What is abundantly clear is while this band set their foot firmly in the progressive metal sphere they made sure that they prioritized writing quality songs. It doesn’t necessarily sound “happy” in a power metal way, but its atmosphere of adventure and sage acceptance is colorful in a way most extreme metal bands can’t touch.Read the full review by Eldritch Elitist at Dessiderium largely eschews minor scales in favor of a more traditionally melodic palette.

What sets Aria apart from many of its contemporaries, however, is its uniquely optimistic tone. In the tradition of Aquilus and Wilderun, Dessiderium uses their Opeth affinity as a platform for reaching higher ambitions. As the proceedings blossom into colorful symphonic prog in the Native Construct vein, and later into a dense bout of blackened Krallice riffs, this comparison became an afterthought. Read the full review by Nick Hudson at īetween the acoustic meandering and melancholic clean vocals that introduce the opening track “White Morning in a World She Knows,” I initially thought that Aria was to be a slab of obvious Opeth worship. Sure there are all the components of prog metal you might expect to hear, but they have been assembled in unexpected ways. And, indeed, even if the band could never really be described as post-rock, they do seem to have composed their music in a post-rock manner – concerned more for shape over form, and texture over structure. At times, some of the more ambient passages even give a post-rock feel to the music. The band have given “fusion” as one of their Bandcamp tags, and it is entirely appropriate, for Involute’s sound is a fusion of prog metal, math rock, and jazz. So, while I guess the band will still be bogged down with the prog metal tag, there is so much more to their sound. The intricacy of their playing, and more so, the way it interlocks, is simply entrancing.

Even though they are not a math band, there is a huge amount of math rock to the way they play their prog metal.

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