Eidolon
Last Scattering
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February 9, 2015

The whole story of these Progressive-heads started in 2012 in Ontario, Canada, by guitarist Jeff Hyde. Upon setting the members list they gathered their ideas and thoughts into writing an album, a debut, titled "Eidolon". As they officially said, their grand opening is dated on March 2014, even though their foundation was settled earlier. Describing this as a Progressive Metal with the fine touch of a Middle-Eastern, an Eastern Oriental music; a mess, a creative mess of emotions inside the aggression would fit perfectly.
LAST SCATTERING defines what I like to call an upcoming band; they surely are aware of what today's music business is (my personal issue is that music is one huge industry, even metal). Their combination of jams is amazing, grazie lads, I'm speechless. A chaos inside this manifest collides between the length of whole "Eidolon''. With the interruption of Death Metal, they write a simple chapter, yet they're patterned into self-visions of galloping, huffing rhythms. It drives you around your neighborhood in a fine-ass looking car, blasting you up and there, recovers memories and emotions long forgotten, or at least that's what I've felt. What an amazing intro, "A Thousand Khets" recalled me of my youth days while I was a huge Aladdin fan, a touch of Prog-metal with an extraordinary vocaling session, yes please mister, yes please. By the second song you're already within the void they've created deep inside your wit. A vivid, yet misty and thick, a trip, maybe I should name it trip-song; even the name says so - "Compound Fiasco", a fiasco indeed.
Playing "GibGib" on my computer made me giggle with happiness, a beautiful addition of melodic riffs, from time to time you actually can confuse it with some Modern Melodic Death Metal band. Songs that pretty much left a huge scar on my lungs (while laughing at their labels) are "Mystic Pizza" and the all-mighty "Matt Damon", no your mind is not playing games, you read it well. Okay guys, I beg you to speak of the details behind these entities, I'm dying to find out, c'mon. It's majestically catchy and I'm in an utter need to know!! The funny part is I randomly listen to the albums and I wasn't paying much attention to the songs names at first listening (indeed, I always make my first impressions in such a way), then the notification popped out with the "Matt Damon" on it and I just had to see what the heck is going on. To all of our readers, I'll say no more than ''It Is Not What You Are Expecting", therefor grab your headphone, set or hit the volume and play it loud, this album deserves that. Encore guys, a total encore, bravo and well done.
I'm most sure in my words when I say they will find their well-deserved place with you're the DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, ANIMALS AS LEADERS and even next to your ORPHANED LAND copy or inside your humble playlist.<
10 / 10
Masterpiece

"Eidolon" Track-listing:
1. A Thousand Khets
2. Compound Fiasco
3. GibGib
4. The Construct
5. Black Birdies
6. Obscenificator
7. Mystic Pizza
8. Matt Damon
Last Scattering Lineup:
Ryan Summerfield - Vocals
Jeff Hyde - Guitars, Backing Vocals
Dervish Kucukovic - Guitars
Omar Badawi - Guitars
Andy Dmytryshyn - Bass
Fahim Safi - Drums
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