Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Forbidden Myth - Zantea Chronicles: The Dream Dominator (2021)

 

The debut album from this band/project from Greece.

The band was a ten pieces big band/project with a lineup of drums, theremin, piano, organs, mellotron, keyboards, synths and vocals.

This band has, so far, released two albums between 2021 and 2024. I will post a review of their second album sometime later this month.

This album is a two CDs album and a Bandcamp album. It is one hour and forty minutes long.

The music is gothic hard rock. It is labeled as heavy prog though. That is not the case on this album.

The music is also meant as a rock opera and it has a lot of rock opera like melodies, indeed.  

There is a lot of female vocals here. Fairly decent vocals. There is no guitars and no bass on this album. None whatsoever and that explains this strange 1980s sound. It sometimes feels like peas shaken around in a glass bottle. Thankfully, there are some more muscular soundscapes here too.

The music is mid-tempo and with lots of piano and synths.

The quality is only half-decent. There are some decent stuff here. I am not by any means impressed by this album. Goth rock fans may like this album.

1.5 points 

 

  

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