Zero Hour - Dark Deceiver
Posted on May 15, 2008 at 8:00 am by admin
Here’s a power/prog band that’s so crazy that they could almost be your favourite new band to land on tour beside Nevermore. Almost. Unfortunately they bring up my love/hate relationship with both the upsides and downside of progressive. Sure I love the idea of bands who are extremely skilled attempting something different, but when you decide to take the creative plunge, it needs to be natural, not forced.
What you end up getting half the time on “Dark Deceiver” is inspired, heavy, and extremely catchy thrashy, deathy, crunchy riffs melding off-time guitar runs. Unfortunately the other half of the time, those runs are the cusp of flashy masturbation, and are stuck right beside strange mechanical ideas that weren’t fully hashed out. The result is a modern power/prog that could’ve used the cold, inhuman skill to the bands advantage to make an album nearly influenced by industrial.
“Dark Deceiver” is an instance where I really wanted to love the album, but the concept just didn’t pan out properly in the end. Zero Hour already has a few albums under their belt which I haven’t had a chance to hear, so it’s difficult to say where history could end. Typically the predictor of future behavior is past behavior, but if the cold, mechanical, melded with industrial leanings is direction the band is going to explore for awhile, then I think all their only a few steps away from grabbing some serious attention.
Released April 29th, 2008
Zero Hour at MySpace
Sensory Records
Buy this album at Amazon.com and Amazon.ca
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