Can a cello, a guitar and some drums create some “revolutionary” progressive metal that will stand the test of the hungriest fan for inventive, yet appealing music? Grayceon is the answer to that question, and the answer is yes!

This debut is strip of any super complicated production sound layers, extensive guitar solos, drum solos or cello solos, every single track has a purpose, and it’s to create a song that will develop not only musically but in a strange way also sentimentally through out its existence.

With the incorporation of the cello the entire album has that “jazzy” feeling… or better put it has that sort of organic, realistic yet “aristocratic” tone that never lets the music fall into a familiar category; the songs are always evolving, but you don’t realize this because you are busy enjoying every riffs, every fast drum inclusion and every melancholic yet extremely powerful cello interpretation.

If I had to come up with objections to some of the decisions made by this amazing trio, it would be just the fact that the vocal department could be improve, is not necessarily speaking bad, but it has room for development, and this since the rest of the music gets from time to time way to demanding for the simplistic, clear and passive incursions of Ms. Perez and Mr. Doyle, who don’t have a bad vocal performance is just that it may be nice to add a more powerful singer in some songs, but despite my obnoxious remarks the album is solid and sounds solid.

Perhaps some might object to the length of especially the last two2 songs, and believe me I have always been totally against more than 8 minutes per track, but Grayceon here shows me just how ignorant and closed minded my ideas have been in the past, so don’t let the length full you, very minute of this album is worth the time and money.