———Hällas is a quite new band from Jönköping, Sweden.
———Members are Tommy Alexandersson (bass, vocals), Alexander Moraitis (guitar), Marcus Pettersson (guitar), Kasper Eriksson (drums), Nicklas Malmqvist (keyboards). After an eponymous release from 2016, they give us this Excerpts From a Future Past, 7 songs made.
———Acoustic dark intro for The Astral Seer that immediately let comes to mind prog edge. A fast song with organ (shades of Deep Purple) and unison fills, something of Uriah Heep comes to mind, vocals seem a bit easy.
———When such changes of time and such unison themes comes to my ears it always seems to listen to common and abused music, so far.
———Repentance is a logic continuation of the first track, so it is all the album.
Sometime it seems to listen a bit of Wishbone Ash, but this is for sure all well known, so the platter doesn’t give us anything of really interesting.
1 The Astral Seer 6:45
2 Repentance 5:15
3 Nebulon’s Tower 2:19
4 The Golden City of Semyra 6:24
5 Star Rider 6:02
6 Shadow of the Templar 7:53
7 Illusion Sky 7:52
