1. Premonition/2. Echoes/3.Four Walls/4. The Reckoning/5.Fade In Time/6.In Your Name/7.Mistakes/ 8. The Condemned Part I/9. The Condemned Part II/10. The Awakening
Release Date: 19 June, 2015, Echozone
Gothic rock music for some, might have been considered as a ‘dead and buried’ genre with everything that it had to offer to have been already delivered to the audiences by Fields of The Nephilim and Sisters of Mercy. Red Sun Revival love the genre so much that they decided to give to it the kiss of life and the new energy it needed so much in order to inspire new and older audiences. There is of course an undeniable gothic revival trend during the last few years but in ‘Identities‘ the second studio album by Red Sun Revival, we hear equally strongly both the gothic (through the vocals and the rhythms) and the rock element (through the character of the electric guitar solos). England is the motherland of the genre and Red Sun Revival have absorbed the tradition of gothic rock in the most creative way without replicating but instead adding noticeable positive elements to the music. The melancholic yet dynamic melodies enriched by the dark aesthetic of the videos swirled in my mind the sound of In The Nursery, Fields of The Nephilim, Mephisto Walz and even Pink Floyd (notice the instrumental part of ‘The Condemned Part I’).
‘…Within my room
All sorrow seems so far away
And oh so soon
They’re drifting in my wake
And when they’re gone…‘(lyrics from the song: ‘Four Walls‘)