Description
The fourth release from Canadian rockers Shades Of Sorrow is titled Ascension and it’s full of heavy, groovy riffs, soaring vocals, even some acoustic songs, that takes you on a dynamic journey filled with peaks and valleys. Each song on the album has it’s own personality but still plays front to back for a seamless musical experience. Ascension also has a collaboration with the hip hop band The Cauldron Project on the track Move. The album was recorded over a two year period at the band’s “One Eyed Cat” studio. It was mixed by Danny Bourgeois at Pump’kn Patch Studios. The mastering was done by Michael Bourgeois. Initially released independently on Shades Of Sorrow’s own label, it’s now getting a well deserved worldwide release via Sliptrick Records.
Ascension is a 10-track album filled with musical hills and valleys, ranging from delicate to deadly. With elements of Thrash, Prog, and even Punk, as well as a strong melodic presence, it combines old and new into a dynamic collection of catchy and gritty songs with an overall genre-bending feel.
“Ascension is the neo sound of this Progressive Metal generation. Coming from all four directions, these four musicians bring their unique talents together to form a sound like no other. Monise Ouellette’s vocals is a uninque blend when combinded with the rich bass of Julien Leblanc. The two alone create perfection in harmony. Add Mike Taylor’s wizardry on the guitar and it spells out pure progressive metal. Not leaving out Pascal Deslongchamps on the drums, delicate in Acsension and Fall From Grace, and turning it up on On a Hot Summer Night. Parade of Lunatics is a wicked harmony between bass and guitar. Rounding it out with the vocals and drums, purely progressive. Skyblazer, what can I say. Flat out kicks ass. Very powerful and intense desire from each artist, incredible, is an understanement. Sleepless gives me goose bumps. Extremely well excecuted. A beautiful song. People should put the headphones on and listen………. to the whole song.”
Lyle Sloane, The Rock Asylum
Ascension | Released June 12th, 2018 on Sliptrick Records
Track Listing:
01. Into The Nightmare | 02. On A Hot Summer Night | 03. Soul Hyperdrive | 04. Fall From Grace | 05. Ascension | 06. Parade Of Lunatics | 07. Tome Of Deceptions | 08. Move [with The Cauldron Project] | 09. Skyblazer | 10. Sleepless
Shades Of Sorrow are:
Monise Ouellette – Vocals | Mike Taylor – Guitars | Pascal Deslongchamps – Drums | Julien Leblanc – Bass
Band links: Official Website | Facebook | Youtube | Instagram | Twitter | On Sliptrick
stalker-magazine.rocks –
No matter whether they tackle Hardrock, Prog or whether they cooperate with the Hip-Hop band The Cauldron Project, Monise and her colleagues Mike Taylor – Guitars, Pascal Deslongchamps – Drums and Julien Leblanc – Bass show off their skills admirably. A well-done genre crossover finishing with another the ballad Sleepless, containing a touch of Prog quirkiness just like Fall from Grace to keep it unpredictable and edgy …read more
unitedrocknations.com –
« Skyblazer » donne dans le tempo relevé, ce qui est assez rare sur ce disque mais bienvenu pour donner une aération de plus. Un petit côté STONE TEMPLE PILOT se fait sentir mais le soupçon métal remporte la mise du titre. Retour pour la seconde fois sur l’opus de la guitare acoustique. « Sleepless » clôt l’album dans la tendresse et l’excellence. La voix de Monise est tout simplement sublime et l’ensemble du titre est une belle conclusion …read more
projectmetalmusic –
I would give Shades Of Sorrow and their album Ascension a 4.5 out of 5, brilliant album …read more
TheDirtyRoom –
Ascension has elements of power/progressive/hard rock/AOR as well as some thrash metal so there’s no excuse for metal heads from all walks of life and styles to not pick this up. Go get this album!! …read more