{"id":5433,"date":"2011-02-23T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:53:58","slug":"album-review-evergrey-glorious-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=5433","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Evergrey – Glorious Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Everygrey – Glorious Collision
\nRelease Date: February 22, 2011
\nHighlights: You, To Fit The Mold, The Phantom Letters, It Comes From Within, …And the Distance, Leave It Behind Us<\/strong><\/p>\n

European melodic prog metal seems to have made quite an impact on me these days and Sweden’s Evergrey <\/strong>is no exception to this.\u00a0 Everygrey’s latest album “Glorious Collision” is a collection of some of the most melodic, beautiful metal I have laid my ears on in quite a while.\u00a0 The older I get the less tolerant I get of these metal bands that are tuned down so low it sounds like a wall of rumble and vocals that sound like Cookie Monster on downers.\u00a0 I never got the appeal of those bands when I was younger and even less now so to hear a band like Evergrey is refreshing.<\/p>\n

“Glorious Collision” is\u00a0 melting pot of everything I love about metal.\u00a0 It has great guitar work, amazing production and guitarist\/vocalist\/songwriter Tom Englund has a voice that sounds like it leaped right off of an Yngwie Malmsteen record.\u00a0 The songs are well crafted and full of depth and personality.\u00a0 Songs like “You”, “To Fit The Mold” and “The Phantom Letters” exceed the expectations of a metal band in my opinion.\u00a0 Too often are metal bands pinned with negative stereotypes.\u00a0 It’s nice to see a band like Evergrey joining the ranks of bands like Iron Maiden and Dream Theater as a band that releases substantial music with well though out lyrics and music that pulls at the heartstrings.<\/p>\n

Everygrey is a band that reminds me that heavy metal can be beautiful and that is nothing to be ashamed of.\u00a0 “Glorious Collision” is definitely an album that lives up to it’s name.\u00a0 It’s like being pelted by a sonic wall of heartfelt and soulful singing, thought provoking lyrics and an immaculate production that creates a listening experience.\u00a0 “Glorious Collision” isn’t just an album you listen to.\u00a0 This is an album you experience.\u00a0 I found myself with the headphones on and allowing myself to drift and become part of the album.\u00a0 Check this one out and allow yourself to let loose and let it take you away for just a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everygrey – Glorious Collision Release Date: February 22, 2011 Highlights: You, To Fit The Mold, The Phantom Letters, It Comes From Within, …And the Distance, Leave It Behind Us European melodic prog metal seems to have made quite an impact on me these days and Sweden’s Evergrey is no exception to this.\u00a0 Everygrey’s latest album “Glorious Collision” is a collection of some of the most melodic, beautiful metal I have laid my ears on in quite a while.\u00a0 The older […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19856,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions\/19856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}