It’s hard to describe their progressive side, it has the classiness of Queen’s heaviest material and the epic might of Rainbow’s Rising and even some Rush (the first song starts with some keyboards similar to Rush’s 2112) To emulate these bands and to honor their heritage, you need quite the singer and Cave of Swimmers is lucky to have such a talent. These guys are truly doing something else here, they include a fair load of progressive metal/rock, especially in the glorious, melodic and intricate guitar solos but also with the river-like song structures. Musically though, they’re nowhere near what most epic doom metal bands are doing these days (see generic bands like Below or even the latest Sorcerer who are on aping at the altar of their Swedish masters). He’s operatic as hell, he’s very lyrical and delivers the lyrics in a hypnotic way. His deep, rich vocals are so powerful than they probably woke up Hugo Chavez from the dead. What are they playing though? That’s why I’m here, right? Well, it’s hard to explain but I’ll try… At their core, they’re a very epic doom band with soaring clean vocals and it’s not everyday you hear a better singer than Messiah Marcolin but Guillermo Perez is unbelievable and chilling. These guys touched me with their music like Opeth did when I was a mere teenager who was still buying the latest System of a Down albums. It’s hard to discover something that will trouble your tripes that much when you’re deeply involved in metal, especially doom, a genre I’ve been exploring thoroughly for a while now. I only get these sort of reactions once or twice a year nowadays. The band is actually a duo composed of Venezuelan childhood friends who both moved to Miami, Florida in the mid 2000s and oh boy, they’re so talented that I became emotionally unstable when I first heard the album. Cave of Swimmers were on my check out list for a while when I received the promo for Reflection, what a better way to discover a band than with their newest album? I was more than surprised with the quality of this band, they’re perhaps my discovery of the year (or maybe the decade?) so far, it’s so good, it’s almost hard to comprehend.
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