Reign of the Architect "Rise"

Country: Israel
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Label: Black Pitch Records
Release date:  April 16, 2013
Tracklist: 
Act I
01 – The End
02 – Different Heart
03 – Hymn to Loneliness
04 – False
05 – Such a Celebration
06 – Leaking Wounds
07 – Distant Similarities
Act II
08 – One Single Sour Grape
09 – …As the Old Turns to Sorrow
10 – I, the Architect
11 – Secrets in the Hallway
12 – Crown of Shattered Dreams
13 – The Green Flame
Act III
14 – We Must Retaliate
15 – Hopeless War

Line-up: 
Yuval Kramer (Amaseffer) – Guitars
Tom Gefen – Vocals  (The Architect)
Davidavi Dolev – Vocals (Storyteller, Father, Razor)
Nina Vouraki – Piano (on tracks 3, 11 and 13)
   With
Mauricio Bustamante – Drums and Percussion
Mike LePond (Symphony X) – Bass (on tracks 2, 3, 9, 13 and 14)
Kyle Honea – Bass (on tracks 4, 6, 7, 11, 12 and 15)
Adva Kramer – Vocals (The Teacher, Rapture)
Grace Hannah Woolf – Vocals (The Girl)
Yotam Avni – Vocals (Ruin)
Jeff Scot Soto – Vocals (The President on track 14)
Joost Van Den Broek  (Areyon, Star One, etc.) – Keyboard solos (on track 7)
Assaf Levy – Guitar solos (on tracks 4 and 9)
Dark Serpent – Soldiers (on track 15)

Description/Reviews: 

Reign of the Architect started as a multinational studio project in October 2008. A cooperation between Yuval Kramer, guitarist of the highly acclaimed Israeli metal band Amaseffer nd Mexican drummer Mauricio Bustamante with the basic storyline written by the Israeli metal singer Yotam ‘Defiler’ Avni, the lead death metal singer of Prey For Nothing. They wrote ROTA’s debut album ‘Rise’, a Sci-Fi concept album, only by e-mailing each other combining their own regional musical influences, such as Mediterranean and Latin music, as well as film soundtracks into the language of progressive metal. The story, which the band has yet to reveal, will unfold over the course of 2 albums. 

Media/Samples 
Entire album at Progstreaming
Distant Similarities
We Must Retaliate

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