'Neonfly' is a British melodic power metal formation created in 2008 by guitarist 'Frederick Thunder' and who released two albums, 'Outshine the Sun' in 2011 and 'Strangers in Paradise' en 2014 in 2014. 'The Future, Tonight' is therefore their third album released in June 2021. They offer us 10 compositions in a powerful, melodic, and direct metal in radio formats between 3 and 4 minutes with a very careful production that highlights the intensity deployed.
From the first track, 'The World Is Burning', we have a good example of what awaits you throughout this album with guitars with incisive riffs supported by a heavy and energetic rhythm section. The sequel shows the same face with melodic compositions like 'Last Of Our Kind' and its memorable chorus, then, 'Flesh & Blood' is a typical mid-tempo of a metal that gives an irresistible urge to headbang and the title eponymous from the album that follows, shows a more hard face with the extreme vocals' Bjorn "Speed" Strid 'often invited in different projects ('Silver Lake By Esa Holopainen' ou ' Ronnie Atkins') but also singer of <'The Night Flight Orchestra'. The sequel offers us a melodic 'Beating Hearts' with heady choirs which should be taken up in concert by the whole audience, then, 'More Than A Lifetime', while keeping an important energy, shows a more measured face with a slower tempo and 'Another Eden', in a faster rhythm, is a lighter and direct composition which should work well in concert. With 'Steal the World', the more aggressive introduction then gives way to more measured sections with beautiful alternations of intensity, then, 'Final Warning', drives the point home of this modern and melodic metal with an original title and lively which, again alternates different atmospheres bringing a good dose of progressive and the album ends in a beautiful way with the power ballad 'The Things We Left Behind (And The Things That Slipped Away)' also showing that they know how to propose more measured atmospheres which, for my part, I would have liked more to bring an even more important variety.
In summary, the British of 'Neonfly' are releasing a very good modern metal album that combines power and accessible melodic lines which should appeal to an audience loving a direct and efficient metal that we appropriate from the start. first listening... | |
