CYCLOPEAN WALLS (Prog Metal – International) – Album Review of the album “Enter The Dreamlands” – submitted by Angels PR Worldwide Music Promotion … due out October 29, 2021 via Steel Gallery Records #cyclopeanwalls
Review written & submitted by Marian Nicolaou via Angels PR Worldwide Music Promotion

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The Cyclopean Walls is an international Progressive Metal project founded in 2019 by the Greek guitarist Yiannis Tziallas, in Paris. Their first work was an EP, “Embrace the Mythos”, and was released in the May of 2020. One year later, the Cyclopean Walls release their debut full- length album, “Enter the Dreamlands”.

If I am being honest, I am not a big fan of the progressive metal so I didn’t have much hope for the album. I thought that most likely would be another uninspired show of technique that has abandoned altogether the desire to create something comprehensible and musical. Honestly, I couldn’t be more wrong. The Cyclopean Walls have come, have delivered and have conquered, and I couldn’t be happier for being wrong for my expectations.

The album is called “Enter the Dreamlands” but is it really the dreamlands that we are about to enter or the dark imagination of one of the most famous horror writers of all times? As you might be guessing, the album is mainly focused around the work of H.P Lovecraft. And progressive metal is not usually the first metal genre that comes to mind when one thinks of a soundtrack to dress the dark and twisted work of Lovecraft. The Cyclopean Walls, however, dared and took the risk to interpret the morbid atmosphere of horror into the progressive only to breathe new musical life to the work of Lovecraft.

In general, the “Enter the Dreamlands” blends the European with the US progressive metal while adding classical elements and beautiful melodies to create dark and haunting soundscapes. Other times, they turn to heavier genres and draw ideas from them to create a more ominous atmosphere. Such an example, the epic doom-like riffs in the “The Doom that Came to Sarnath” (how fitting) and the eerie and doomy guitar work in the final song of the record, “The Garden”. Also, while it may seem like a detail, in the song “The Dweller in Darkness”, the eastern melodic lines were a beautiful addition that brought to mind the visions of the mad Arab.

The only thing that is left to add is that you should go and listen to the “Enter the Dreamlands”. And that is an absolutely killer of a debut.