Produced by Theron Rennison and Alarum
Released: 2004
It took Alarum a long time to follow-up their first album, so the title of this could be as much a reference to that near-five year period as it could mean nothing at all. Eventuality… is also an evolution, with tighter songwriting and more focused arrangements, although these are no less technical than previously.
Alarum’s skill in combining the jazz-tinged elements of Cynic and Atheist with the complexities of Death is breathtaking, and the mostly acoustic interludes that appear throughout the album break up the heavier tracks quite impressively. The band added further progressive elements to their overall sound here too. ‘Receiver’ has something of a calypso feel underpinning it and there’s a sitar-like guitar line that permeates through the impossibly technical ‘Woven Imbalance’ that is truly striking. Elsewhere, Alarum highlight their jazz influences in ‘Remote Viewing’ and ‘Event Duality’ while taking the opposite tack on the violent ‘Inertial Grind’ but at no point did they allow one side of their music to outshine any other.
Mature and sophisticated, Eventuality… is an excellent release from an excellent band, one that took them around the world in the couple of years after it appeared. Since then the group has changed substantially with little news coming from Alarum for more than a year, but a new album is due before the end of the year which I look forward to with high expectation.
- Velocity
- Sustained Connection
- Lost Pleiad
- Receiver
- Remote Viewing
- Inertial Grind
- Cygnus X-1
- Throughout the Moment
- Woven Imbalance
- Boundless Intent Pt 1
- Boundless Intent Pt 2
- Subject to Change
- Event Duality
- Audio Synthesis
- Reconditioned
Rating: 92%
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