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Labyrinth: In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye
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Labyrinth: In The Vanishing Echoes
Of Goodbye

Progressive Power Metal
4.0/5.0

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Frontiers Music
Words: Craig Hartranft
Added: 22.01.2025 | Released: 24.01.2025

Another four years has passed, and Italy's metal titans Labyrinth return with a new studio album, In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye. You have to cut them some slack in the waiting. Many members are active, off and on, with various bands in their native country and the European theater. Guitarist Olaf Thorsen dropped new albums with Shining Black and Vision Divine; bass player Nik Mazzucconi with Edge Of Forever and Archon Angel; and vocalist Roberto Tiranti with Bloody Idol's debut album, The Last Crusader. In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye is Labyrinth's tenth long player, once more on the Frontiers Music label.

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The band comments on the album: "As the years go by, we feel increasingly free from formulas and stylistic boundaries that sometimes trap a band within a specific musical genre. With this album, we set out to achieve total freedom, allowing each of us to fully express ourselves. Perhaps for this reason, combined with the reality of living in increasingly dark times, this work has become our heaviest, fastest, and angriest album to date, while still making it to keep our typical melodic/melancholic touch."


Essentially then, the new album gives listeners Labyrinth's distinctive progressive power metal. Which is, as they commented above, fast and heavy metal with an occassional softer vocal or instrumental segue. Then all things led to tag team solos between guitar and keyboard. Above the gallop and groove Tiranti gives melodic, yet controlled, assertiveness.

Fine examples arrive with Heading For Nowhere, Welcome Twilight, Accept The Changes, or At The Rainbow's End. Alternatively, The Healing dials things back with moderate pacing and a softer feeling, yet becomes increasingly heavy. And similar is To The Son I Never Had, largely a heavy power ballad that turns on voice and extensive acoustic and electric guitar lines. It's all rather bombastic and powerful music, and exactly what you would expect from Labyrinth.

All said, In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye finds Italy's long serving metal giants Labyrinth in peak performance, delivering another well-crafted album of their now signature progressive power metal. Definitely recommnded for fans of the genre and the band.


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The Take Away

In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye finds Italy's long serving metal giants Labyrinth in peak performance, delivering another well-crafted album of their now signature progressive power metal. Definitely recommnded for fans of the genre and the band.

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