Metal Bulletin Zine: Ilium (Australia) - Quantum Evolution Event (lyric video)

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Ilium (Australia) - Quantum Evolution Event (lyric video) - melodic heavy metal

The power metal band Ilium [Australia; 1998-2002 (as Iliad), 2002-present] will have a new EP called Quantum Evolution Event out in January. So far they have 12 releases, including this new one, and their discography is eight albums and four EPs, according to the current information on Metal Archives. Right now on Bandcamp they are streaming the opening song from the EP. If you would like to read the lyrics to the song, the band's YouTube channel is streaming it with the lyrics.

Ilium on this EP lives up to their reputation as traditional power metal for headbanging: the perfect guitar tone, sound, riffs and hooks; the contemporary, polished studio sound; the overall style of joyful, happy heavy metal music (despite the album cover!); the fast, melodic, shredding guitar solos; and the singing to make you sing. You can try to sing this way, but maybe you try it when you are by yourself with no one else around because good luck trying to sing and hit those high notes.

Speaking of singing, this EP features the singing of none other than Tim Ian "Lord Time" Grose from the long-running band Lord, and who has other bands, projects and collaborations. Anyway, the singing is basically that perfect tone of the upper section of the male singing voice, a full singing and melodic singing voice. You'll notice that Tim likes to use some very pleasant, melodic background singing in some places. Ilium is Jason Hodges on guitars (2002-present) and Adam Smith on guitars, bass, and keyboards (2002-present). They got help from long-time Australian collaborators Tim Yatras (Dungeon, Lord, Germ) on drums and Lord Tim (Lord, Blackened Angel, From Beyond, and other entities) on vocals and production.

This song is a very good representation of the general sound and quality of the entire new EP.

At the bottom of this information right here you will find the band's entire 2020 album Carcinogeist and the 2019 EP Enviro-Metal. Listen to the full album, get to know the music while waiting for the new EP later on in January.