Year : 2014
Style : Heavy Metal , Progressive Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 148 mb
Bio:
The Scintilla Project - the superband put together by Saxon's Biff Byford - will release their concept album 'The Hybrid' alongside the film."Scintilla" is a science fiction film set in a secret underground laboratory in a former Soviet state, take place in the strange experiments.Saxon's frontman Biff Byford met Lionel Hicks in the studio know that this movie produced and so there was a song contribution to this film. All participants were immediately hooked and so the idea of a concept album inspired by the film and its gloomy theme einzuspielen arose.So Biff Byford Lionel Hicks (Drums), Anthony Ritchie (bass), both "Balance Of Power" and Andy Sneap (Guitar) met again in the studio to record the magnificent work.Biff Byford states:’ I was introduced to Lionel Hicks by Toby Jepson while recording ‘Call To Arms’. This was leading Saxon to write a song for the Lionel Hicks produced film ‘Scintilla’. As the film developed through production, our minds began working – maybe we could put together a concept album based and inspired by the film. While I was having a break from writing with Saxon me, Lionel Hicks and Anthony Ritchie ( both ‘Balance Of Power’) decided that I would produce and also sing on the album, I brought in Andy Sneap to co-produce and play guitar on some tracks’.
Album:
It was almost inevitable that THE SCINTILLA PROJECT were going to sound like SAXON. Sure, there are extra keyboards and the songs have more Prog in them, but with powerhouse vocalist BIFF BYFORD on board, the comparison just can’t be avoided. And the Yorkshire Titans legions of fans will absolutely love this.Inspired by the recent sci-fi movie ‘Scintilla’ (also known as ‘The Hybrid’ in some places), the band was born out of a mutual friendship between Byford and drummer Lionel Hicks, who also serves as the producer. Whether their efforts work in conjunction with the film remains to be seen, but taken purely in its own right it is an undeniably impressive album. One unremarkable closing track aside, the majority of it is classic Heavy Metal with plenty of fist pumping anthems and Wacken regulars will lap it up.“Angels” for instance is excellent and could sit comfortably alongside any of the SAXON classics. At sixty-three, Byford is still a formidable presence and he lends a muscular heft to even the quieter moments. The same can be said for “Pariah”, "Scintilla”, “Beware The Children” and “The Damned And The Divine”, all of which also feature some adrenalin pumping guitar work courtesy of ANDY SNEAP.Scattered throughout are samples of dialogue from the film which help to maintain the sci-fi theme and distinguish this from other similar records. There are mentions of asteroids, alien DNA and old Soviet bunkers and it all gets gloriously geeky. This is not a cool album by any means, if anything it’s more nerdy than a date-less Saturday night playing Space Crusade, but it’s brilliant fun nonetheless.Truth be told, the film itself looks a bit pants. It’s something to do with mercenaries battling alien horrors underground and the trailer on Youtube is utter crap, but “The Hybrid” is a hammy delight. And face it, sometimes you want to spend a weekend playing board games and not talking to girls…
Line-Up:
Biff Byford (SAXON) - Vocals
Lionel Hicks (ex-BALANCE OF POWER) - Drums
Anthony Ritchie - Bass
Andy Sneap (HELL) - Guitar
Tracklist:
01. Scintilla (One Black Heart)
02. Beware The Children
03. Permanence
04. Some Nightmare
05. Angels
06. Pariah
07. The Damned And The Divine
08. Life In Vain
09. No Rest For The Wicked (Extra Track)
+ Video "Beware The Children" (Official Video)
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