Artist : Fatal Fusion

Album : Dissonant Minds

Release Date : 10-07-2020

Added : 03-09-2020

Lovers of progressive 70s with long developments that are slowly tamed, listening after listening, you are in the right place with the last album of the Norwegians of 'Fatal Fusion', 'Dissonant Minds', which brings their discography to 4 studio recordings after 'Land of the Sun' in 2010 nominated for the Prog Awards, 'The Ancient Tales' in 2013 and 'Total Absence' in 2016.

Less long than its predecessors, it is nonetheless remarkable with only 4 titles but with 2 long developments which together total more than thirty minutes of listening. With 'Coming Forth by Day', we are embarked on a first very seventies progressive saga with multiple influences and atmospheres, ranging from keyboards close to 'ELP' to a Hispano-oriental acoustic melody, through a sweet melody close to 'BJH' and muscular in some places close to 'Deep Purple' ('Knut Erik Grøntvedt' having a voice of hard-rock bands singers) and with a final whose melodic lines settle permanently in the head and ends with a remarkable fade out leaving 'Knut Erik Grøntvedt' whispering lyrics accompanied by some piano notes. Follows 'Quo Vadimus', which, in less than eight minutes, contains different atmospheres with a rhythm that remains energetic throughout the title and with many changes of tempos, the Hammond organ twirling in the manner of the late 'Jon Lord', then, the ballad break is brought by the instrumental 'Beneath The Syndrom' in the form of a slow procession highlighting layers of keyboards and having an epic and baroque finale with percussions reminiscent of the bolero of 'Ravel'. And that's with the longest title, 'Broken Man pt. 2' (which is the second part of 'Broken Man' appearing in the 'Norwegians' debut album) that the album ends by offering us a new imaginative progressive fresco in several drawers exploring various and varied influences with melodic lines always accessible and with finale which give an irresistible desire, the last note passed, to press the play button again.

In summary, it is still a very beautiful album that the Norwegians of 'Fatal Fusion' offer us with everything that the amateur of long progressive developments likes to find in this kind of music, originality, imagination and beautiful melodic lines that we appropriate, little by little, listening after listening...

Line Up / Musicians

Knut Erik Grøntvedt (Vocal), Erlend Engebretsen (Keybords), Stig Selnes (Guitar), Lasse Lie (Bass), Audun Engebretsen (Drums)