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Music Waves now offers you every month the monthly editorial selection and the winners for April are...
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For this first vote, the list of competing albums was as much an annual top as a single month's top. Indeed, in the long list of albums released in April 2020, there were much-awaited releases such as the latest Nightwish, Joe Satriani, Trivium, Katatonia, Al Di Meola, In This Moment and other mastodons such as Pearl Jam or Green Day... or the brand new JPL, a highly-anticipated representative of the French progressive music scene!


TOP WAVES GENERAL APRIL 2020


To everyone's surprise, it's a real plebiscite received by Conception and "State of Deception" which is clearly not one for the editorial staff of Music Waves! 
This first album since 1997 and "Flow" ("My Dark Symphony" released in 2018 was only an EP) "confirms the superb rebirth of Conception" and the talents of Tore Østby's composers as well as being able to offer us tracks such as "'By The Blues', which could easily flood all the radios" and others that "sail between the 1997 Conception and Ark" (Nuno777).


 

Less surprising is Nightwish's second place finish and his "Human. II: Nature". 
"For their tenth album, the Finns have done things in a big way with a double concept album, a first for them" and they take up the challenge with flying colours by giving birth to an album "which will count in the history of symphonic metal by the depth of its varied and ambitious writing, by the exceptional interpretation of all its protagonists and by the emotion that its music is capable of providing". "Undeniably a must-have of the year, of the genre, of metal, of music" that this second place in this April 2020 top confirms.

 



And who then to complete this April selection? The editorial staff of Music Waves highlighted the eleventh album of Katatonia, which many thought they would never see again after the break declared in 2016. With "City Burials", "Katatonia is back with an album in its usual dark and melancholic style, rich in emotions and subtleties and does what it does best: Katatonia with that signature so characteristic of the greatest. "Katatonia proves once again his ability to take the listener into winter spheres lulled by a warm and painful voice and to arouse emotion in no time at all" 




The detailed general ranking :
Conception "State of Deception" 18 points
Nightwish "Human. :II: Nature" 12 points
Katatonia "City Burials" 10 points

Pure Reason Revolution “Eupnea” 7 points
Joe Satriani “Shapeshifting” 6 points
Al Di Meola “Across the Universe” 6 points
Irist “Order of the Mind” 6 points
My Dying Bride "Ghost of Orion” 6 points
Benighted “Obscene Repressed” 5 points
Dynazty “The Dark Delight” 5 points
Freak Injection “Daddy is the Devil” 5 points
JPL “Sapiens Chapitre 1/3” 5 points
The Oneira “Injection” 5 points
Warbringer “Weapons of Tomorrow” 5 points



PROGRESSIVE TOP APRIL 2020

For the progressive style, the podium is made up of three groups whose future was written in dotted line. In fact, we find in the first two places the winners of the general classification, namely Conception and Katatonia accompanied by Pure Reason Revolution which had announced its separation in 2011. And for his return to business, "Pure Reason Revolution's know-how in terms of sounds has not changed over the years: "Eupnea" is particularly well produced"

 


The detailed progressive ranking :
Conception "State of Deception" 27 points
Katatonia "City Burials" 19 points
Pure Reason Revolution “Eupnea” 11 points

JPL “Sapiens Chapitre 1/3” 3 points
Anubis "Homeless" 1 point
Fughu "Lost Connection" 1 point
The Oneira "Injection" 1 point



TOP METAL APRIL 2020

Nightwish therefore naturally trustees the first place of this ranking but beats the newcomer Irist and his "Order of the Mind" who was one step ahead of him. Influenced by Gojira, Mastodon and Sepultura, this first album has [a lot] of personality. Clearly, with "Order of the Mind", "Irist gives us a salutary slap to get us out of the torpor of an anxiety-provoking confinement and imposes itself as the metal revelation of this beginning of the year".
 



And then, it's comeback with My Dying Bride who appears in this April's Top Waves metal. "Once the adversity has been overcome, My Dying Bride is back with "Ghost of Orion" rich and deep, more accessible and showcasing an Aaron Stainthorpe at the top of his shape"
 



The detailed Metal ranking :
Nightwish "Human. :II: Nature" 16 points
Irist “Order of the Mind” 15 points
My Dying Bride "Ghost of Orion” 11 points

Lucifer “Lucifer III” 6 points
Scarlean “Soulmates” 6 points
Angellore “Rien ne devait mourir" 5 points
Warbringer "Weapons of Tomorrow" 5 points
Aeonian Sorrow “A Life Without” 4 points
August Burns Red “Guardians” 3 points
Benighted “Obscene Repressed” 3 points
Freak Injection “Daddy is the Devil” 3 points
Testament “Titans of Creation” 3 points
Trivium “What the Dead Men Say” 3 points
Absolva “Side by Side” 2 points
Burning Witches “Dance with the Devil” 1 point
Dynazty “The Dark Delight” 1 point
H-One “MMIXIX” 1 point
Nova Twins “Who are the Girls?” 1 point
Wallack “Black Neons” 1 point



TOP WAVES ROCK AVRIL 2020


In the rock category, the guitar heroes have the upper hand.
  
In first place, we find Joe Satriani who delivers his eighteenth album. Every Satch album is a sure value but "as is often the case with him, he takes the opposite side of the previous album. "What Happens Next" was very rock, coherent and optimistic", ""Shapeshifting" is undoubtedly Joe Satriani's most intimate and introspective album"


 

In second place, another guitar hero, Al Di Meola with a Beatles tribute album. But "knowing the American's inventiveness, it was logical to suspect that he wasn't going to make a simple transcription of the original pieces" but "the reinterpretations always remain faithful to the spirit of the songs". In short, "Across the Universe" is a sincere and brilliant tribute from one of the greatest jazz-rock guitarists to one of the greatest bands of all time"


 

And it is Mike Tramp who completes this podium with "a collection of tracks composed throughout this period but never retained". "For his twelfth solo album, Mike Tramp offers a work that is more rock than folk, but still tailored to accompany the journeys on the highways towards the setting sun". "Second Time Around" confirms Mike Tramp's place alongside the greatest storytellers who put our most intimate emotions into words and music."




The detailed rock ranking :
Joe Satriani “Shapeshifting” 18 points
Al Di Meola “Across the Universe” 17 points
Mike Tramp “Second Time Around” 10 points

Bonfire “Fistful of Fire” 5 points
Freak Injection “Daddy is the Devil” 5 points
Newman “Ignition” 5 points
The White Buffalo “On the Widow’s Walk” 5 points
Green Day “Father of All…” 4 points
Block Buster “Losing Gravity” 1 point
Howard “Obstacle “ 1 point
Pearl Jam “Gigaton” 1 point
The Last Internationale “Soul on Fire “ 1 point



And you, finally, for which album of this selection would you have voted? Share your Top April in the comments below...



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