Dangerdog Music Reviews :: © 1999 - 2025 Craig S Hartranft :: All Rights Reserved
No part of this this website, including design and music reviews,
may be reproduced in any form or by any means without
the prior written permission of the publisher.
CELEBRATING 18 YEARS!
- New Music Reviews
- |
- Archives
- |
- News
- |
- Submissions
- |
- About
- |
- |
New Music Reviews, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, AOR, Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal
Recent Reviews
May 2025
- The Flower Kings: Love
- Maestrick : Espresso Della Vita: Lunare
March 2025
- W.E.T.: Apex
- Alliance: Before Our Eyes
- Ginevra: Beyond Tomorrow
- Phil X & The Drills:
Pow! Right In The Kisser - IQ: Dominion
- Heart Line: Falling Heaven
- Gotthard: Stereo Crush
- Defender: Dying To Live
- Streetlight: Night Vision
February 2025
- Robin McAuley: Soulbound
- Perfect Plan: Heart Of A Lion
- Craig Brooks: Desolation Freeway
- Mantric Momentum: Alienized
- Pattern-Seeking Animals: Friend Of All Creatures
- Crazy Lixx: Thrill Of The Bite
- Ginger Evil: The Way It Burns
- Dream Theater: Parasomnia
- Tyran: Tyran's Oath
- Saber: Lost In Flames
January 2025
- Wildness: Avenger
- The Ferrymen: Iron Will
- Labyrinth: In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye
- Bonfire: Higher Ground
- The Big Deal: Electrified
- Landfall: Wide Open Sky
December 2024
- After Lapse: Pathways
- Illusion Force: Halfana
- Powell-Payne: Voilá
November 2024
- Sunstorm: Restless Fight
- Storace: Crossfire
- Voodoo Circle: Hail To The King
- Lionville: Supernatural
- Starchaser: Into The Great Unkown
- Empires Of Eden: Guardians Of Time
- Lonerider: Down In The Dust
- Seventh Crystal: Entity
- Neal Morse & The Resonance: No Hill For A Climber
- Beardfish: Songs For Beating Hearts
- Impellitteri: War Machine
- Brothers Of Metal: Fimbulvinter
Karcius: The First Day
Karcius: The First Day
Melodic/Progressive Rock/Metal
4.5/5.0
Website
Facebook
Unicorn Digital
by Craig Hartranft, 12.13.2012
After four years of crafsmanship, Montreal's Karcius returns with their fourth album, The First Day. In this time, it seems their progressive rock has become heavier, possibly more melancholic and dark.
Karcius:: fortune cookie football.
But this could be an illusion, musical smoke and mirrors. Karcius's music can be both elusively light at times, like simple melodic rock, and than burst into this large harder progressive rock The Word or Rest My Head. Sylvain Auclair's vocals vacillates between dreamy and dreary. Even when the band rocks out, his vocals, combined with the music, could subvert your conciousness, putting you into stupor or sleep.
Don't get me wrong here: this is fine melodic progressive rock. Karcius echoes a breadth of peers from Pink Floyd to Porcupine Tree to Riverside. The First Day is equally progressive rock as it is a fusion of melodic, ambient, and international themes. Song composition and creativity are at a premium, and their musicianship is undeniable. Basically, it's hypnotic and entertaining. This makes me wonder if they can actually pull this off in a live concert. I suspect they can, and I would suggest you refrain from alcohol if you do see them live: you may not be responsible for your actions. The First Day is easily recommended.
Note: All Amazon advertising in this review first benefits the artist, then Craig Hartranft also receives a residual. Click, and thanks for your support.
TweetIn Short
Karcius's The First Day offers entertaining melodic prog rock, some times heavy, but also hypnotic and subversive to your ears and mind. Recommended.
Find A Review
Alphabetical Index
New & Notable
Here's a fun fact about Swiss legends, Gotthard: their last 16 releases, excepting their debut album, went to number one in their home country, making them one of Switzerland's most successful acts and ... [ Read More ]