Soto - DIVAK

Published April 02 2016

*=Staff's pick	DIVAK (Intro) Weight Of The World FreakShow* Paranoia* Unblame Cyber Masquerade In My Darkest Hour Forgotten SuckerPunch Time Misfired The Fall From Grace* Awakened

Genre	Heavy Metal/Hard Rock	Jeff Scott Soto	Vocals
Tracks	13	Jorge Salán	Guitar
Running time	56 Min.	BJ	Guitar
Label	earMUSIC	David Z	Bass
Release	April 1, 2016	Edu Cominato	Drums
Country	USA/Brazil/Spain	BJ	Keyboard
Producer	J. S. Soto/E. Cominato
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Jeff Scott Soto's second solo effort in just over 14 months. To have a new album out this quick isn't exactly following today's standards of having intervals of like 2-3 years between one record to another and what I find remarkable is that this record still reach the same fine level as the previous one did and possibly it's even a tad better.

Pretty much what Inside The Vertigo sonically was, DIVAK is too. It's somewhat modern heavy metal with a few segments of hard rock involved and Soto's vocal performance is, much as expected, still stylish and vigorous and does definitely not belong to a bygone era in a technical perspective. The sound picture is powerful and for the most part I like the total production of the record and in fact quite a lot on this piece of music is to my liking, even if I frankly don't feel like being hit by a freight train when I listen to it.

In terms of great songs, I think that this deal is lacking the absolute highest peaks, but this is basically being well compensated by an overall even and good songlist throughout the record and the band indeed holds the capacity to come out with fully loaded material to keep me attentive for almost the entire hour of playing time and to me that shows that the music has quite a strong effect in the end.