Zoner
Euharmonic Elevation

Behind the moniker of Zoner stands a man, a man from Cyprus who’s name you can read to the left (I cannot spell names of that kind). He has done one self released album before and is doing his second album now. The good thing about his stuff is that he gives it away for free even gives away the shipping for free wherever you are in the world. Isn’t that a good kick in the face for the idiotic thing called capitalism, I wonder if he is rich or if he just feels the need to spread his lovechild all around the world to anyone that is interested. Attractive cover artwork with lots of colour, but there are some dark clouds here of course as one man bands can have a problem in the darling killing department. So what about Zoner?

Musically it spans over a wide area musically, acoustic, progressive, metallic and all in between and all the time. It is a fairly clever story I would say, but there is a bit of downer on the production side of thing as I believe the guy isn’t as home on the production side of things as he is on the song writing side of things. One thing we can conclude is that he isn’t subscribing to the NWOFSODMM (New Wave Of Fuckin Songless One Dimensional Modern Metal) side of things. The songs are varied and with much depth, I also think he sings fairly well and his Zoner doesn’t quite sound like anything I have heard while also sounding a lot like much everything I have heard.

I think that this is an album that is worth the money, many times over. The songs are good, the creativity is flowing all the way through and the passion for the music is heard all the way through the album. It is also an album that is made under the wisdom of “less is more” which means that the eight tracks needs just over a half hour to be heard, which is more or less perfect for this kind of album. But the album isn’t without some small problems, one of which is the accent that sometimes gets a bit thick and the sound doesn’t really do the quality of the songs justice and that is a shame because this could have been really fantastic. Still it is not a bad album, rather the opposite – I just feel that it could have been better with just an average progressive metal production.

There are eight good tracks and there are two that I think are great. One of those is the opening track which goes in the progressive vein and then we have the best track which is Politics of Modern Love which is quite brilliant and here the lacking production stops being a problem. I really like that track and I think the album is well worth checking out, it will not cost you anything anyway so why not do it? Good album, but imagine what it could have been with a somewhat better production – that would have been something.

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