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"The third album from Ogezor - ex-Entropy Zero - takes us on a chaotic indus journey, never devoid of sonic beauties open to all genres."
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4/5
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In 2019, Entropy Zero offered us an instrumental intergalactic voyage. However, the droid-brain F-2301 then decided to rename his project Ogezor. This evolution was not limited to the name, and the Ogezor rocket seems to have landed here on an indus metal planet, with a science-fiction concept that's pretty hard to grasp.
Their third album, “The Green Light”, is in the footstep on from their second, “Distorsion Process”. The tracks are no longer entirely instrumental, and a smell of sulfur has enveloped them. Metal-indus sounds have taken over, crowning the domination of the guitar allied to sultry keyboards and growling vocals. Martial but also danceable, tracks such as 'The Bunker Zero', 'The Holy Dragon' and 'Radium-V', dizzying in their celestial depth, cultivate a character that is as pleasurable as it is anxiety-inducing. Yet the instrumental dimension of the first album has not disappeared. Paradoxically, “The Green Light” opens with the relaxing, melancholy “The Call”, while the majestic “The White Butterfly” allows us to take a breath. 'Brotherhood' seems to pierce through the darkness to find a glimmer of hope and brotherhood. The most successful track, 'Dark N.'Sego', offers us a one-way ticket to hell with its amplified bass.
The mood of the whole is eclectic, with Ogezor's progenitor not wishing to limit himself to a single genre, but rather to use a toolbox to endow each track with a distinct horizon. This adventurous spirit can be heard on 'Endless City' and the neo-medieval 'Sword Of Feyr', which flirt with prog, teeming with ideas, and continues with the Gregorian chants on 'The Holy Dragon', or on the elegiac finale in which the author seems to be writing his (provisional) epitaph. It's a pity that this richness of sound wasn't applied to the vocals, which always appear in the same tone (not to say secondary) and would have deserved some nuance in their treatment (they appear a little forced on 'The Syndicate Of Barons', and the track would have benefited from remaining instrumental).
Despite its lengthy 50-minute running time, Ogezor's third album is exciting and rich, with an indus backbone that ventures out in all directions and builds in power in its second half. The project continues to evolve from album to album, and it's hard to know which skin F-2301 will be wearing next in its new space opera. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. The Call
02. The Bunker Zero
03. Radium-V
04. The Syndicat Of Barons
05. The White Butterflies
06. Brotherhood
 07. Dark N.'s Ego
08. Endless City
09. The Holy Dragon
10. Sword Of Freyr
11. Death Of F-2301 (end of the cycle)
LINEUP:
F-2301: Chant / Claviers / Keytar
K-74: Basse
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