Dissimulation was an amazing record. It was tech metal at it's finest. Hope For The Dying gave us something special. Follow-ups to beloved records are tough. Will it be as good? Different? Better?
Aletheia smashes Dissimulation. Dissimulation was a great record. Aletheia is a classic in the making.
The acoustic riff on Acceptance that opens up the record, gives Aletheia a completely different vibe from the start. The epic three minute intro to the nearly ten minute song sets the tone nicely for what's to come. Acceptance is super rifftastic, but in a more progressive way than Dissimulation was.
Aletheia is to Dissimulation as Crack The Skye is to Blood Mountain. You tracking with me?
Visions (ten minutes) and Open Up The Sky (thirteen minutes) have wide open sections of beautiful guitar solos. So many, lovely, piercing guitar solos. From great acoustic and classical runs, to slow, meandering squealing solos, to some nice sweep picking and tapping. Aletheia has it all.
Aletheia is more than just long songs with solos that never end (not that I would have a problem if it was). Tracks like Reformation and The Lost are hard hitting metal songs. The songs feel similar to those on Dissimulation but there's a magnified grandness and epic quality to Aletheia.
It's not lost on me that Dissimulation and Aletheia have opposite meanings. Where Dissimulation means to hide and conceal one's true feelings, Aletheia translates the state of not being hidden. Aletheia is "the very heart of Hope For the Dying."
Aletheia is a masterpiece and a future classic.
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