( Progressive Heavy Metal) Overlife - Дискография ( 1998-2007) , MP3, 320 kbps CBR

Overlife's album can probably remain the same interest than Angra created with its first album "Angels Cry". I'd even say that Overlife can easily be compared to first Angra's appearance. At first, Overlife's sound is pretty good & clear. Then, musically speaking, there's a fantastic work made by guitars like on one of their best track "The Last Martyr". Blending involving chorus, speed guitars parts as well as emotional acoustic ones, the work of the 2 guitarists is fully complete. Facing most progressive bands, Overlife's song never sounds like a collection of riffs or parts even if all musicians in the band are really up to the average. It's certainly because they were at first a heavy metal band. The singer use a large range of his voice, trying to diversify his vocals appearance. Backing vocals are really good too & they bring a lot to this richness music Overlife has to be classified between Rhapsody & Angra.

It's sure that the band have all means to convince all fans of melodic & progressive metal. In 7 songs (including one intro & an outro), Overlife appears like a very promising band & maybe among the rare one in the underground able to compete with the most famous acts worldwide. It'd be really a pity to ignore them so far!

The French Connection

Leandro Martinez - lead and backing vocals, drums on 3
Javier Marco - electric and classic guitars
Javier Martinez - electric and classic guitars, backing vocals
Sergio Sanchez - keyboards and backing vocals
Roberto Bonus - six string bass
Fabricio Carlotta - drums
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Johnny Negrete - backing vocals

Overlife lack an exceptional vocalist and while John Negrete is competent, he does not rise to great heights that the band achieve musically. 'In The Shadows', 'Riding Through My Mind' and the title track are bursting with ideas and brilliantly handled, in the vein of early Dream Theater and Madsword. Elsewhere the instrumental 'Eclipse' will impress, as will 'Freedom' which rocks with the vigour of old style Power Metal. Overlife are a very good Progressive Metal band and therefore should not go unnoticed by fans of the genre, for they are more than capable and highly entertaining.

Samson Metal Warriors

John Negrete - vocals
Javier Martinez - guitars
Javier Marco - guitars
Sergio Sanchez - keyboards
Roberto Bonus - bass
Fabricio Carlotta - drums

Empecé a escuchar el cd y me dije "joder, o les ha tocado la primitiva, o en estos años de silencio musical han ligado más de lo que imaginaban". Letras extremadamente felices (ahora en castellano) que hasta me impactaron de forma no demasiado agradable tras la primera impresión. Luego recapacité recordando alguna conversación de bar con esta gente y no me cuadraba la cosa... y efectivamente, escuchando detenidamente las letras acaban siendo una combinación de deseos optimistas contrastados con partes de realidad pesimista y melancólica, más acorde con su estilo musical.

¿Y qué estilo practican? Podríamos dejarlo en un metal progresivo, pero la gente que les tildaba de plagiadores de Dream Theater en sus inicios seguiría pensando lo mismo, cuando ya poco tienen que ver, si no es por el virtuosismo técnico que demuestran en la mayoría de canciones (tanto a las cuerdas como a las teclas). Su estilo actual tiene una base rítmica mucho más contundente, los temas se impregnan de fuerza y velocidad, más cercanos a Eldritch, pero con un sonido más limpio. Y esa voz rota de John Negrete, capaz de subir hasta donde necesita sin perder un ápice de cuerpo y fuerza, nada tiene que ver con un James LaBrie o cualquier otro terrorista de los tímpanos auditivos, se acercaría más a un Tom Englund de Evergrey, aunque la voz de John es más cruda, pero no por eso se desmerece, escuchad temas como "La Tempestad" donde en los conciertos habrá gente que a mitad de canción ya estarán de rodillas alabándolo.

Overlife han vuelto con más fuerza (en todos los sentidos) que nunca, sin privarnos de ese virtuosismo que si no supiéramos que son capaces de reproducir en directo, les tildaríamos de fantasmas. Gran retorno de estos alicantinos desbordando calidad, fuerza y técnica en cada uno de los temas de este "El Despertar".

Paranoia Metal Show

John Negrete - lead and backing vocals
Javier Marco - guitars
Javier Martínez - guitars and backing vocals, lead vocals on 8 & 12
Sergio Sánchez - keyboards and backing vocals
Roberto Bonus - bass
Nacho Mena - drums
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Dolo Molla & Ángel Díaz - percussion on 1
Marina Llorca - piano on 7
Alba Marco, Ares & Antea Negrete - voices on 1 & 8