Album Review: The Trilogy Ecliptic
Unto the Wolves has brought a powerful EP to the table with The Trilogy Ecliptic. This album packs a powerful punch of metal, progressive rock, djent, thrash, and an eclectic blend of all things heavy. The songs are a shred fest in that satisfying guitar God style. Pulse pounding percussion, nasty breakdowns, and hellish screams/chest rattling vocals that make this adventure a wild roller coaster ride of badassery.
“Destroyed” is a perfect opener, beginning with a choir of evil monks/synths and then fades in a powerful double bass beat that creeps into a sorcerer metal meltdown. The songs takes you even down the rabbit hole with monstrous riffs. The harmony leads act as a symphony of evil to really get your head banging. The song is such a fun construction, while being about destruction, this tune builds and creates an awesome visual.
“Rebuild” continuing down the concept of the three songs, the vocalist paints ominous pictures of ego tear down, realization, and acceptance. Beautifully written, the lyrics to this trilogy run in sympatico with the ambience of clean crunchy guitars with killer delay swells. The song begins to build into a metal operatic anthem of a phoenix rising out the ashes.
“Alignment” the third and final track, is a banger of an ender and leaves you wanting more material. A powerful, progressive riff overlays some powerful theory driven runs that sync with the percussion to create a marching, charging, and motivating collision of sound. I love the breakdown/bridge taking you into the quiet intro riff only to blast your fucking face off again and again. “There is no life without pain” the singer proclaims. Everyone who knows this knows it’s a lesson learned hard.
This EP is a rarity, in the sense that everything about it is cohesive in concept. It takes a lot of talent to make a record this epic! This record is for fans of all genres of metal. They take you on a wild ride, bonded in covalent musical mayhem with the lyrical prophesying of a life endured.
Bryan Blake
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