This album is a milestone of epic electro metal and gives you hymn by hymn a whole universe of majestic choirs, futuristic synthesizers, unforgettable hit melodies, brilliant arrangements and brutal, sophisticated metal sounds. My personal favorite for the best AGM album of the year 2012.
Majestic and martial the giant spaceship is landing. Turbo engines blow clouds of stardust. A threatening droning and wardrums shake the earth. And suddenly a furious tornado explodes into hyperspeed. Raging drums and …
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The first thing that came to my mind was that Dol Ammad was another generic symphonic power metal band, perhaps with some Nintendo-like samples every now and then. I was very, very far from the truth.
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The songs (in Hyperspeed) flow into each other, with the choir’s amazing voices providing the main focal point to a myriad of musical backing, almost sounding like Vangelis wandering into a choral recital, where Gamma Ray decided to set up for a jam. You won’t find music like Dol Ammad anywhere else.
Having already released two albums under the project name Dol Ammad and …
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The results when backed by the symphonic metal riffs, layers of synths and electronica are surprisingly coherent and form music with a filmic quality. In fact anyone else that I have played Dol Ammad’s music to has commented that it is more like listening to a movie soundtrack than a “metal” album. If it helps, think Jean Michel Jarre meets Therion with a more modern twist and you’ll be some way to imagining what is going on here. – STEVE REID
As it becomes increasingly difficult to create music that is genuinely innovative and ground breaking, so those seeking to build something new begin to combine elements of disparate genres to come up with something similar yet different. Enter Greek composer Thanasis Lightbridge who has decided that the best way with which to reach his musical goal is to bring together elements of symphonic metal, add a choir and classical arrangements, before topping the whole thing off with electronica style keyboards and dance beats. Those varying influences may not sound like the most obvious of bed fellows and in truth they aren’t, however it is to Lightbridge’s credit that all these jostling rivals are blended expertly to make interesting and decidedly different songs.
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What is surprising though is that considering that the Dol Ammad albums featured nearly twenty contributors, The Universe Expands sounds no less grand in scale, or broad in execution for only having three. – STEVEN REID
Having release two albums under the guise of Dol Ammad (2004′s Star Tales and Ocean Dynamics two years later), Greek Electronica-Art-Metal composer Thanasis Lightbridge turned his attention to another project that furthered the same musical ethos of blending classical voices with surging metal riffs and electronic themes. Where Theeta differs from Ammad is that instead of the vocals in the band being a choir of fourteen, this time the sole voice of soprano singer Kortessa leads the way. The difference may in the grand scheme of things be quite subtle, but the end results are quite starkly different, with the single focus point suddenly freeing up the music to be less oppressive and claustrophobic than that which Lightbridge had produced before.
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