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You've probably never heard of them, but The Last Days promise greatness.
Their first album, called Bionic Hearts, is currently in production, and instrumental tracks can be seen and heard on their rather small Facebook page.
The first thing to note about Bionic Hearts is the fact that it is a conceptual album, focusing on when technology and human advancement gets out of control, and the struggles that those left behind suffer. Hence the name "The Last Days". These conceptual themes (already confirmed to return with a different apocalyptic story on at least the first 5 albums) are all apocalyptic, focusing on "the last days" of humanity.
But anyway, enough about the band, on with the review! The album doesn't stick to one style. It has an underlying tone of electronic rock, but has influences of classical symphonies, heavy metal, and even electro pop. It really is wild, but it isn't ashamed of it.
The Last Days hide nothing. This, their debut album comes out guns blazing, in your face, but peaceful when it needs to be. It is the strongest part of the album, but also its highest downfall. It leads to clearly memorable tracks being loud and brash and drawing you in, but being followed by fairly repetitive, forgettable rock tunes to almost fill in the gaps between important songs.
The high points of the album are undoubtedly "Metal Masquerade", "Bionic Hearts" "Hiding place" "End Game" and the final track: "If God Can Hear Me Now". With songs like "Eliminate" and "Iron Rising" despite being good, falling behind.
We are yet to hear all the songs from this album, and we are also yet to hear the vocalist (as only instrumental versions have been released at the moments. Although we do know he is good. He has scored maximum marks in vocal exams, has been trained in classic opera as well as alternative rock, and is a very strong bass baritone, still capable of tenor and falsetto parts.
We should all very much look forward to seeing more from this small group. So check out their Facebook page (you'll recognise it, it's all black and neon) as this album, at this moment in time, boosted by the unheard vocal quality, scores a 7/10. A solid debut album, with album 2 "Blood Red Feathers" due to start work as soon as Bionic Hearts is published, promising a full symphony with an underlying theme of "piano rock", we can be sure of one thing. It's only gonna get better...