Ewigkeit - Radio Ixtlan

*=Staff's pick	About Time esc.* PowerPlant Journey To Ixtlan Live At Palenque 2012 Conquer The Fear* Platonic Verses Strange Volk* The New Way

Genre	Experimental Metal	James Fogarty	Vocals
Tracks	9	James Fogarty	Guitar
Runningtime	39 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Earache	James Fogarty	Bass
Release	23 July 2004	-	Drums
Country	England	James Fogarty	Keyboards
Similar artists	Pain

Ewigkeit is nothing more than the solo-project from James Fogarty where he basically does it all. It is experimental to sum it all up in one word, but at the same time psychedelic and futuristic with an industrial sound but without taking any big turns into the progressive area. James Fogarty has his roots in Black and Death Metal and even if Radio Ixtlan isn't exactly neither you can easily hear that is from there the foundations are taken from.

Radio Ixtlan definitely has its ups and downs as Fogarty mixes basic metal riffing with Pain type of melodies. It is monotonous and industrial metal with electronic and new age influences. A diverse mix that sometimes hold together really well but mostly it doesn't. It works rather well in tracks like esc. and Conquer The Fear that both has a kind of Therion ambience of might and a Peter Tägtren vibe over it. Balancing somewhere between the death metal from Hypocrisy and the melodic sense of Pain. Also here you can find a slight industrial touch. Strange Volk is one of the better tracks that starts with female vocals but then turns into an instrumental track. A great rhythm driven by the drums and a melodic folk inspired with a Celtic touch melodyline, shared by both keyboard and guitar.

The music is often driven by the riffs and isn't really that fascinating, if it hadn't been for all of the extra features in terms of electronic vibes and distorted sound. Every now and then a great melodyline is thrown in to break the monotony and those times it is pretty good, but otherwise it tends to become to diverse. It spans pretty wide while it is the electronic elements that binds it all together. At most points it is death metal, at least with the basic musical structure. But at other times it spreads from Goth to New Age and further to the electronical Ambient musical style. And it becomes a bit to synthetic and static and not organic enough whilst the drums are programmed instead of played, but it is a somewhat interesting attempt he tries to accomplish and is best enjoyed in small doses.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
5	4	6

Summary
5 chalices of 10 - Thomas