The Human Paradox
Season of Ghosts

In all Ol' Big Daddy 31 years into Metal scene, obviously there were times when some Metal albums astonished me a lot, due their breaking barriers musical work. And again that sensation is back, for the first album from Greek band SEASON OF GHOSTS, "The Human Paradox", really is amazing!
The band seems to be a musical project from the vocalist Sophia Aslanidou, a singer that was born in Caracas (Venezuela) and moved to Europe in early age, and grew in Thessaloniki (Greece). She worked as well with Japanese BLOOD STAIN CHILD. And this work mixes the best you can find in Metal with some Electronic/Techno musical, using as main theme the love for the unseen and film soundtracks. And maybe you can feel and understand all this throughout the album's songs. The riffs are excellent, so are drums, bass and keyboards, along with the electronic effects, but Sophia's is something really astonishing, for her voice is perfect, singing with normal tunes in a way not commonly used by Metal divas before. And it's not something like Industrial Metal, far away from that, for there's no depressive atmosphere on the album's songs.
The production is perfect, so the sound quality is really astonishing mixing the heavy sound from Metal and its subgenres with Electro music can appear in great for, all arrangements clear and extremely loud, as their music gains impact on our ears.
Al the songs are excellent, showing that the songs were worked with extreme care. The best ones are "Genesis - The Phoenix Syndrome" (perfect vocals and riffs in a grandiose song), the excellent "Time Travellers" (perfect with great keyboards and effects, but if these choruses don't get you, Big Daddy here swears to eat a seal!), the beautiful and introspective "The Human Paradox", "Beautiful Eternal Things" (that started abrasive, but became more soft when the vocals appears), and the strong "Quantum - Through the Looking Glass".
Buy it, nephews and nieces of mine!
10 / 10
Masterpiece

"The Human Paradox" Track-listing:
1. Nothing Disappears Without a Trace
2. Genesis - The Phoenix Syndrome
3. Time Travellers
4. Dream; Paralysis
5. The Human Paradox
6. [NE]: MESIS - The Kiss of Justice
7. Beautiful Eternal Things
8. Dreaming in the Gray Lands
9. The Road to Acheron
10. Quantum - Through the Looking Glass
11. Reincarnation
12. There and Back Again
Season of Ghosts Lineup:
Sophia Aslanidou - Vocals
Ghost Legion - Guitar, bass, drums
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