When you have a guitarist who has this wonderful combination
between the sounds of Mike Keneally, John Fruscinate, Alex Lifeson, Steve Vai,
and Frank Zappa, it is going to be quite an amazing experience when you listen
to an up-and-coming guitarist from Long Island named Chris Fury. With a bachelor’s degree in music from
Binghamton University, Fury brings a touch of adventure, progressive music,
virtuosity, funk, classical, and metal right in his veins throughout on his
Guitar as it takes the listener throughout various journey’s with his debut, From Darkness.
Alongside Fury, he brought along Berklee Graduate Ian Underwood from the
Chris Fury trio on Bass Guitar, Sebastian Persini on Drums, and Jason Roddin on
Piano/Keyboards to help along Fury makes his mind-blowing debut to give it that
high voltage. The Nexus opens the album up like a battering ram that hits you right
in the gut as the band go straight into town. Fury is playing both rhythm and
lead by playing some heavy riffs and all over the frets as if Vai is watching
in awe of this amazing up-and-coming guitarist giving some juice to heavy duty
work while he gets into the Funky-soul yet bluesy groove in the styles of
Parliament Funkadelic teaming up with John Fruscinate of the Red Hot Chili
Peppers as if it was recorded in the early ‘80s on All Funked Up.
Then, he brings his finger-picking and thumb-slapping technique
with a classical touch with Byte the
Bullet. It is very much as you can imagine the sun going down into west as
he is watching it by creating these soothing and minor melodies to capture it
at the right moment as Roddin creates this atmospheric synth surroundings in
which Fury gives himself a chance to relax before going back in the
thumb-slapping unexpected moment that is jaw-dropping for an ending.
Elsewhere, Over
Andover has a futuristic yet ascending adventure as In Your Eyes, has a very romantic acoustic-rock ballad that has an
‘80s feel and then Fury goes into this emotional yet powerful solo and soothing
structures to fit the vibe. Both Mogera and
Lost Transmission go through from
heavy riffs, pummeling chords, Roddin’s doomy piano work for the finale to a
gentle relaxation as the spaceship heads into lightspeed towards back home to
earth with some calming atmosphere, makes it a wonderful voyage going through
the heavier and uplifting touches between both Persini and Roddin.
Then you go back into the driving forces of fast-mode with a
beat like a race car going 200 miles per hour on tracks like the fierce and
dramatic beats on Running Away and the
virtuosity tribute to Rush’s Alex Lifeson on A Fire WIthin as Fury gives Berklee alumni Ian Underwood a chance
to do his bass work for a Jazz-like solo for a mellowing moment for a second in
the style of Jaco Pastorius as Fury and Persini take turns doing guitar chords
and drum patterns all over the place before the solos go in for a shrieking and
volcanic finale.
The title track goes through a minor and mourning vibration before
the seat belts are buckled up for another driven roar on the composition in
which the piece deals with you really are on Autopilot Disengage. There are some classical and symphonic
melodies that he plays on here and it really shows how Chris brings that in the
11th track and lending his chops to the table and it’s a killing
track that is probably going to become a live fan favorite soon into his career
and in the future.
The relaxing yet fighting as you sacrifice to save one
person’s life with Last Breath,
starts off with a relaxed acoustic guitar chords and then followed by a
mellowing electric workout before going into almost a Brian May style and then
back into the comfort bluesy sound and then back into the thunderous magic.
Then, it becomes very ambient thanks to the synth textures on the spacey
voyages into the universe of the milky-way as Chris relaxes to give it that
warmth sunrise. The closing track, Mystical
Journey is where everything gets right into the moment.
It starts off with a Tchaikovsky-like introduction as the
band go into a ¾ waltz time signature as you can imagine someone doing the
Tango for the first minute and twenty-four seconds before going into energetic
overdrive and then back into the time signature. What Fury and the band are
doing is creating a back-and-forth movement from going into the Waltz into a
Harder edge drive that they switch gears by going into different directions on
the road.
There has been some excellent music so far in 2014 and
up-and-coming virtuoso guitarist Chris Fury fits right in this year with playing.
There is almost the soundtrack inside your mind and Fury playing the music for
you and his arranging and composition in From
Darkness shows he can go into mellowing, heavy, classical, blues, fusion,
and prog like no other. And after listening about seven times now, it is soon
going to be one of my favorites. A must have for an adventure that you will
experience from beginning, middle, and end.
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