then the inviolability and predetermined quality of these languages came to an end, and the necessity of actively choosing one's orientation among them began. With each literary-verbal performance, consciousness must actively orient itself amidst heteroglossia.an illiterate peasant, miles away from any urban center, naively immersed in an unmoving and for him unshakable everyday world, nevertheless lived in several language systems: he prayed to god in one language ( church Slavonic), sang songs in another, spoke to his family in a third, and when he began to dictate petitions to the local authorities through a scribe, he tried speaking yet a fourth language.all these are different languages, even from the point of view of abstract sociodialectological markers.As soon as a critical interanimation of languages began to occur in the consciousness of our peasant. Consciousness finds itself inevitably facing the necessity of having to choose a language. Improvised live to a film re-cut including excerpts from Mirror, Arrival, Vertigo, Under the Skin, Constantine, Catch-22, Sunshine, and AfterLife. Track 2: 35 minute performance at Arts Letters Numbers, July 13 2018. Be sure to follow Parius on Facebook as well.Track 1: first rehearsal recording from November 2017. The Signal Heard Throughout Space releases this Friday, October 7th, via Willowtip. Find yourself some time to jam this end to end if you can trust me when I say the journey is worth it. I’ve been sitting on this for damn near three months now dying to talk about it, and now you can hear it in its entirety. The pacing is immaculate, each song hitting you with hook after hook that build and play off of powerful leitmotifs, all building up to what I can safely call one of the most satisfying endings to a concept album I think I’ve ever heard.įriends, I simply do not have enough good things to say about this album. It’s a fun story that wouldn’t be wholly out of place in a Flash Gordon or Lost in Space serial, complete with a narrator piping in at key junctures not unlike the Serling-inspired voiceovers on The Eldritch Realm. The narrative is woven seamlessly in the music, following the travails of an astronaut seeking the origin of the eponymous signal from deep space and the trials he overcomes as he sees his journey to its conclusion. Louis Thierry’s vocals are strong and highly varied, covering a breadth of styles from glitzy showtunes to a gravelly rock-oriented timbre to the occasional scream, and he hits it all with gusto. Parius did their homework on this one, having studied every rock opera they could get their hands on- “from Jesus Christ Superstar to Ziltoid the Omniscient” per their own words- and spent the past few years demoing and trying out material until it was well and truly ready. It’s flashy and technical without ever being overwhelming this is a rock opera, after all.Īnd it succeeds on that front as well. Those oh-so-smooth guitar lines are out in full force and are backed with some excellent pocket playing on the kit, tied together by the aforementioned keys and the ever-brilliant bass work of Kenny Rentz. Many of the writing idiosyncrasies of The Eldritch Realm are still here, fleshed out and built upon in captivating ways. Every song has been re-mastered with an all-analog signal path for incredible sound quality. This album will be pressed on heavy-weight vinyl in a beautiful translucent aquamarine. For every bit of Dream Theater or BTBAM or The Dear Hunter I’ve heard throughout my listens, they are just snippets of color woven into that signature Parius tapestry. GameChops has returned to Bandcamp to offer a limited edition colored vinyl for Zelda & Chill 2. The second point is that it not being death metal hardly matters: this is a Parius record through and through. As such, the showmanship and bombast have been cranked up appropriately, with the addition of keyboardist Sean Gallagher bringing a lot of new textural elements and layers into their sound. Screams and growls are still present but are used sparingly and only when it serves the narrative, and the instrumentation, tone, and overall vibe are less aggressive than previous outings. The band has leaned hard into the prog side of their sound and in doing so have produced a full-on bona fide rock opera. The first is that this album is not death metal, or minimally so anyway. If you’re an established fan of the band, there are two things to know going in. The Signal Heard Throughout Space by Parius
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