Gaia's Legacy

In the last three years, after “Livequake”, Eldritch have worked hard, have had a lot of live shows and finally they’ve recorded their last work under “Scarlet Records”: Gaia’s legacy. This work is a concept album inspired by Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” about global warming and the dangers of environment due of pollution and wrong politics which are slowly killing our earth Gaia. Eldritch built around this topic, a dark sound album full of progressive parts and melodic arrangements. Furthermore the new keyboards player, Gabriele Caselli is a new arrow for Eldritch’s bow: his distorted leads and brilliant sounds create a strong wall with Eugene and Gianneschi's guitars heavy riffs. Great work for Terence Holler which voice is aggressive in the heaviest songs but also calm and relaxing in the last song Thirst In Our Hands, like a sad lament.

Like every progressive album, Gaia’s Legacy needs to be listened a lot of times in order to be understood completely. The first half of the album is the best one, even if the last two songs Thoughts Of Grey and Thirst In Our Hands are the best tracks. After a short intro, Deviation opens the concept, followed by Our Land which alternate heavy (classic Eldritch style) guitars riffs with melodic refrains. Note the beautiful piano riff in the intro of Our land which really rocks. Vortex of Disaster is a classic Eldritch song characterized by a sad atmosphere and trash guitar parts followed by the ballad Mother Earth and the interesting Everything’s Burning (Video song). Tonight Out and Like a Child (with Bob Katzionis keyboards solo) are the weakest part of the album even if they are good songs. Thoughts of Grey is the best one (in my opinion) characterized by a “strange” but very original and innovative refrain and an incredible middle instrumental part . Finally the sad ballad Thirst in our Hands which is the best piano ballad I’ve heard in the last years. Great job with the Fates Warning cover.

To sum up, I’ve to say that this work is one of the best album in Eldritch discography and one of the best album of the year. Great job.