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KOBRA AND THE LOTUS Prevail II By Daniel Höhr, European Correspondent Monday, April 23, 2018 @ 8:37 AM
Now the sequel to the Canadians' 2017 album is to be released through the Austrian labal Napalm Records and, naturally, expectations are high. If I may say so right at the beginning, the album doesn't merely meet them. It exceeds all of them in any possible way. Conceived as a double album, the band's record label opted to split Prevail into two parts, containing a total of 21 songs including a cover version. As stated above, Prevail I was my favourite album release in 2017. However, the best songs, it seems, were saved for Prevail II.
The opener, “Losing My Humanity”, bursts in with a high-octane riff and develops into a multi-layered modern heavy metal composition I will not even attempt to analyse and describe in detail because the listening experience speaks for itself. This is miles ahead of any song on Prevail I – and those were all bloody brilliant. As you progress through Prevail II, the sheer abundance of different ideas, moods, sounds, feelings, expressions and energies will send you on a musical roller coaster ride you haven't experienced before. “Let Me Love You” has a feel I haven't really heard since HIM at the beginning of the millennium and a vocal line that is sure to give you a fair amount of goosebumps. “Ribe”, an atmospheric interlude that basically consists of an enchanting acoustic guitar and the sound of birdsong in the background, leads you to “My Immortal”, an mid-tempo groover with an incredibly captivating chorus, whose melody could even be a folk song under different musical circumstances, and an otherworldly a cappella middle section. Some experiments fail, others turn out to be vastly successful and this track certainly belongs to the latter category.
KOBRA AND THE LOTUS's Prevail II is a masterpiece of an album and will hopefully see the band where they belong, namely headlining shows on the big stages and at the top of whatever charts there are. The twelve tracks on Prevail II, including an acoustic version of “Let Me Love You”, somehow defy the word “song”. These are masterful compositions made up of a host of different elements and moods, ingeniously combined to a stunning album that is hard to top.
5.0 Out Of 5.0
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