Rob Lundgren -vocals(session)
Antonis Panagopoulos-guitar
Thanos Paparidis-guitar
George Pispirigos-our new Drummer
Bass recorded by Spyros Chasapidis

OFFICIAL LINKS

https://www.facebook.com/artificialedenofficial/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy2rkcI2OiPszkNagzMEtA

https://www.instagram.com/artificialedenofficial/

Influenced by the American hard rock/metal and progressive metal, Artificial Eden present a very personal style in their same titled album by simply blending these styles and bringing them to their own cosmos.

There are parts in their songs where they seem to pay tribute to the 80’s American hard rock/heavy metal bands. Then there come sudden progressive breaks that make the songs more interesting. That’s what happened with the opening track “Artificial Eden”.

The second song “Day of Tears” begins with a fragile guitar theme accompanied by nice synth lines. Soon the latter give their place to a Dream Theater influenced progressive theme. The song is heavy metal with progressive touches. The acoustic break is a heartbreakingly emotional part with extremely nice vocals. The whole song is moving and the bass line sets the tone for the groove every second. Progressive riffs turn to heavy headbanging themes. The production is nice although I’d loved to hear it bigger, more broadened and more intense. The vocals are sensitive reminding with the way they are sung of such emotional singers with wide vocal range as the great Joe Lynn Turner.

“Land of Depression” is a depressive tune. The downtempo beginning of the song with synths is pretty much ambient to my ears. The drums sound is not so thick. I’d loved to hear it bigger. The guitar melody and bassline drive the song to what appears to be an American hard rock ballad. The progressive rock parts of the song are a bit 80’s flavored. The prog bassline is again what’s grooving out the song. The end of the song is a fusion of modern jazz/prog. However, the lead guitar work is what keeps the song connected with metal.

“Lies Between the Lines” (what a beautiful title!) has a great opening riff, one of those riffs that Dream Theater must have played themselves somewhere in the “Images and Words” period. So nice! Artificial Eden seem to never forget their melodic side which (when it gets more heavy) sounds like Bruce Dickinson late solo works.

“Poor Desire” is the most metal song of the album. A palm muted riff a-la Black Album opens with a warm background lead guitar. The song lies somewhere between Metallica of the Black Album, Annihilator of Set the World on Fire and some weird mixture of Megadeth with Alice in Chains.

The last song of the album is “Thoughts”. A heavy prog song with a dominant riff work, but again sensitive and melodic vocals. “Thoughts” is a nice exit for the album.

“Artificial Eden” is a beautiful album for fans of progressive rock/metal and for fans of the American hard rock/metal. The band has good players and they released a very nice album full of melodies and technical songs that keep the interest throughout. It needs few listening times and it will surely grow inside of you!