Album Review: Lunar – ‘EIDOLON’

After the debut album, THEOGONY, received numerous raving reviews even being called a “masterpiece” and “A record everyone must own.”, which even made #23 on Prog-Sphere’s Top albums of 2017, in the Spring of 2018, Ryan Erwin (guitars) unexpectedly passed away, leaving Alex Bosson (drums) unsure of what to do. After some time passed, he decided to persevere through the tragedy and continue on with LUNAR. Using the tragedy as inspiration, he began writing the next album, EIDOLON–another concept album based around the cycle of life and death and the stages of grief that the ones left behind feel. After writing all the music for the album, Alex enlisted friend Balmore Lemus (NOVAREIGN) to handle tracking guitars for this album. And with Ryan Price and Chandler Mogel (OUTLOUD, DOUBLE VISION) both returning again, the lineup for EIDOLON was set.

In keeping with the diversity that the guest musicians brought to THEOGONY, Alex decided to continue with that idea. By the end of recording, a total of 18 musicians contributed to EIDOLON–this time including members of Haken, Thank You Scientist, Fallujah, Leprous & Caligula’s Horse, to name a few.

EIDOLON is another journey of progressive metal at its finest, spanning 7 tracks and nearly an hour of material. Once again being released through Divebomb Records, EIDOLON is available as of November of 2019.

Seeing the album and hearing all this about the band, I got really hyped for it. And I’m glad I did, because I wasn’t let down. From the instruments to the voice, I think that it is truly an amazing work of art that everyone should listen to, at least once. Powerful vocals, complex sound and great lyrics, it’s one of the few albums that managed to give me chills while listening, which without further ado makes me salute the creativity of all the artists who worked in order to release this album.