EVERON

"Venus"
(1997)

Track List:
1. Venus, 2. Missing the Last Train, 3. Real me, 4.Information Overdose,
5. Restless Heart, 6. What do we Know, 7. Meteor, 8. Reply, 9. Not for Sale, 10. Until the Day Breaks

Line Up:
Oliver Philipps (voices, keys, guitar lider) - Ralf Janssen (guitar) - Schymy (bass) - Christian Moos (drums and percussion)

Third work of the German Everon, band of origin neosymphonic but that in this disk it presents a proposal with several elements that bring near it more to a quite melodic progressive hard. Taken place by the own leader of the band Oliver Phillips and engraving in their own studies, this proposal of Everon shows us a very border sound between the traditional neosymphonic and a progressive metal. To say melodic progressive hard would be maybe an adjusted definition. The hard part comes given by the work of the guitars of Phillips and Jenssen that often use a moderate but firm distortion in the rhythmic part and in the alone ones, alternating with the moments where the keyboards prevail. This reminds me a lot to the first disks of the Canadian Saga. Christian Moos uses varied resources additional percussives to the drums that they are able to be inserted well in the topics to exception of some parts where with determination I find that they overload in an annoying way the final resultant. The vocalizations of Phillips always come out airy and they are some of the highest points. Their voice perhaps remembers to Greg Lake, especially in the beautiful ballad "Real me". The achieved points in this work as for emotion and power go by the remarkable "What do we know" where everything is an interesting one in moving crescendo toward the epic thing, "Missing the Last Train" with its instrumental introduction "Venus", the melodic "Restlless Heart" and the instrumental "Meteor" with influences of Rush. There are topics where the one mentioned excess of effects percussive and sound it conspires against the final, such resultant they are the cases of the dark "Until the Day Breaks" and of "Not for Sale". In this Everon not you sustrajo to the "obligation" that they feel the bands of accompanying with some noise and kindred effect, to the lyrics that they speak to each other of trips and space climates

Julio Zoppi