Lost Innocence
A Tale Never Told
1996
Review by Neil St.Laurent
Thanks to the band for the Cassette
Lost Innocence is one of those bands that has been around for a
fairly long time with never managing to put out an album. Well,
after 7 years of putting out a variety of well received demos, the
band has released "A Tale Never Told", their debut album.
As much as the band lineup over the years has changed does the
musical structure follow a similar pattern. It is a combination of
anything from folk to metal, with the greatest emphasis placed
notable on the area of metal. Priority not given to transitions, the
music comes out fairly segmented with definitive lines between slow
and fast, or stylistic differences. This detracts from the emotional
flow of the album, but adds to the generally chaotic disposition of
the recording -- which lends to the originality and interesting
nature of the music. There aren't too many places where clean guitar
can be heard alongside choral vocals and then break away into
metal riffing. It is sort of like progressive metal, but without all
the wimpy riffs and lacklustre vocals, that is it has a structure
similar to progressive bands but uses crunchier riffs and a selection
of vocal approaches (clean to hoarse singing).
Finishing the album is a classical number called "When The Sun
Sleeps", which although is a wonderfully emotional piece, comes only
as a counterpart to the opening "Grains Of Dust", they are sort of
like gothic book ends for a collection of war books. Of course neither
does the cover of "I Just Called To Say...", that oh-too-popular 80's
song.
While the album is somewhat confused as to what it is trying to
achieve, it is certainly interesting throughout. There are segments
of emotion, some of technical mastery, and others of various
non-descript influence. So overall it is somewhat chaotic, but
whatever good sense the word can attribute. "A Tale Never Told"
would achieve the bands desire not to be categorized easily.
Contact:
Michele Mastroberti
Viale degli eucalipti
32 84134 Salerno
Italy
Voice: +39.(0)89.750846
Email: lostinnocence@geocities.com
Web: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/club/8258/
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