Chaos Over Cosmos – The Silver Lining Between the Stars Review

As soon as the listener presses the play button, the over ten-minute opening piece, Violent Equilibrium, greets the listener with a surge of shredding/virtuoso with synth sections and aggressive growls. It sets up the remaining four pieces, each contributing to an immersive space-proggy experience.

Furthermore, the listener will find that The Silver Lining Between The Stars and A Dream If Ever There Was One album are both connected. Regarding the album and its music production, it is noticeable that it is well-crafted and refined, unlike A Dream If Ever There Was One. The guitar work does not overpower the vocals, and the instrumentation and music composition are skilfully done, displaying excellent devilmanship.

In our previous review, A Dream If Ever There Was One, we mentioned that the album focused on too much shredding, which could act as background noise. However, this release offers a livelier musical experience. Once the listener passes the opening piece, the songs warm up and become more enjoyable and engaging, making it a great listening experience, not just background noise.

The composition presents an endless and chaotic display of shredding, sweeps, and drilling blasts stacking on each other through occasional odd times and weird rhythmic patterns while maintaining an effortless flow. The music features a strange mania of blasting and double pedals intertwined with odd stops, cuts, and starts. An additional space-ambient synthesiser adds depth to the music, creating a mesmerising soundscape.

The release’s vocal work featured the late KC Lyon, except for the fifth piece, where KC Lyon’s brother Keaton provides the vocals. Both vocals involved dry Melodic death growls, screams and clean singing, which brought the songs alive.

Overall, it is a solid and well-produced album that will impress you. The album comes to an end with the closing song, The Sins Between The Stars. This track departs from the rest of the album, strongly emphasizing atmospheric sounds. The keys and melodies take over, and the riffs are focused on striking chords. It is a 10-minute journey that displays the opposite side of Chaos Over Cosmos, with a mid-tempo flow of ups and downs between heavy and soft parts that evoke emotions.