Translated from the original French
A great deal of conventionality for this production, sprung straight out of the cerebral cavities of the former bassist of the power-speed band LIGHTFORCE. After the line-up change in the original band, our thrashing companion was surely brooding on the musical caper in question, so much so that he gathered two other longhairs to get his project up in due form.
The first impression transmitted to the listener's cranial diodes is at the visual level, because he perceives on the cover nothing very extraordinary apart from an angel and a demon leaning over a metalhead on his knees, while LIGHTFORCE's logo generously showers his mane with luminosity.
The lyrics too sometimes give off an impression of already-heard, because the themes tackled in three tracks (the Reconciliation between God and men through Jesus, the Saviour's holocaust of blood, the brutal struggle against "the enemy of darkness") are messages of everyday consumption among Christian thrashers. Perhaps the trio is seeking to root itself first in truths without detour, in order to hit back soon with far more unexpected compositions? Surely...
Besides, on the musical level, their thrash makes one think a little of a slow local train whose passengers, anaesthetised on the spot by flabby routine and the daily grind, no longer even react to the voice of the inspector-screamer whistling in the night of their dreams. This voice, as if clogged with the sooty coal-dust of the old locomotives of yesteryear, has nothing really brilliant about it and would even recall at moments the railway line where deaf and rickety convoys roll their humps deep in the hold. Worth signalling all the same a level crossing of a far superior kind (!) in "Illusion Of Life" where the technicity goes at a good clip (!) as in "Impulsation", certain of whose tonic accents distantly recall the old LIGHTFORCE, not forgetting "Break The Curse" which rivals the TGV for speed!!! (it is a hardcore roll rather original on the ear). So the heavenly jokers are not in the end such stragglers, and one almost wants to transfer them to first class (!!) because their "Break The Curse" (break the evil) and their "Impulsation" go straight to the bullseye and do after all jump the barriers of banality. So, after treating ourselves in a first phase of our little scribble to a stinking cattle-truck feeling, here are LIGHTFORCE rehabilitated. So, all of you, slammers and moshers, try to speed up and get your landing gear out and "break the evil" before you arrive at the station, because the sorting of souls is assuredly done before disembarking on the platform...
Other coverage for this album
Heaven's Metal #26Reviewed by Doug Van PeltThe new lineup of Lightforce - Steve Rowe, Cameron Hall, and Jayson Sherlock - have created a nice work of thrash art. The chops of this three-piece are impressive. The band's tight...all they need is a new vocal style. Steve Rowe's vocals sound forced, coming across as unsincere and an underground imitation of Roger Martinez. Songs like "Illusion of Life" have some really cool chord patterns and…
