Vanquished
Moonlight Prophecy
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December 5, 2017
MOONLIGHT PROPHECY is a Progressive, Power Metal band hailing from the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia Pennsylvania in the United States of America, founded and encouraged by the mind behind the project, the talented multi-instrumentalist Lawrence Wallace. There is something memorable about every work of art that is created to touch, move, influence or shock, but the sensibility that awakens inside our neo cortex when our auditory system identifies something new worth our attention and most of all our positive opinion and even the selection of it as part of our most appreciated works of creativity has no comparison within the range of different emotions we can experience as human beings, and this record did exactly that.
"Eternal Oblivion" is to me, one of the best tracks in this work by the American band, a mind blowing piece of creative art, as the mindfulness of all the members of MOONLIGHT PROPHECY harmonize perfectly in this one of a kind Metal Hybrid, outstanding at the very least, the product of three superior wills to make metal evolution something out of the present and not a matter still to come. Vanquished represents the debut and the follow up to the EP released earlier in the year called Eternal Oblivion, Maturity and Dexterity are two of the words that best describe this full length album by MOONLIGHT PROPHECY.
Multi-instrumentalist Lawrence Wallace gave up the spotlight in his own band, in order to be part of a band that homogenizes all of its members original talents to turn them into something bigger and more powerful that can only be expressed through a collective, this is truly the beginning of a band that can be set with no comparison, after the long road they have travelled on their own as individual musicians in order to become what they are today, MOONLIGHT PROPHECY relies on both the talent and the experience of its members to become a trademark act in the future of Progressive Metal for a long time to come. A must have in the collection of the Metal Temple, and a project worthy of recognition and exposure in the years to come.
9 / 10
Almost Perfect
Songwriting
Musicianship
Memorability
Production
"Vanquished" Track-listing:
1. Abandoned
2. Escape the Ruins
3. The end times
4. Spellbound
5. Fading Away
6. Fury M
7. Never Forgotten
8. Eternal Oblivion
9. Witch Hunt
10. Omen Under the Stars
Moonlight Prophecy Lineup:
Raphael Gazal - Vocals
Lawrence Wallace - All Instruments
Mika Mage - Bass
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