Enchant - "Blink of An Eye: Regular edition" Review

Artist/ Band: Enchant
Title: Blink of An Eye (regular edition)
Label: InsideOut Music
Year of Release: 2002
official website (for more info on this and the band's other cds)

Tracks:

1. Under Fire

2. Monday

3. Seeds of Hate

4. Flat Line

5. Follow the Sun

6. Ultimate Gift

7. My Everafter

8. Invisible

9. Despicable

The Review:

The California ensemble, Enchant released Blink of an Eye back in 2002 which will make number seven in their catalog. In someways they’re a veterans of the prog-metal & neo-prog scene,Ever since their debut they have show signs of growth and maturity while still retaining their “sound”.

In a perfect world, where everyone (especially the big record companies) would have an open mind to different types of music, most of Enchant’s music might receive some airplay on various rock stat ions across America but we all know that it’s not going to happen anytime soon. It’s catch 22 situation but to me I’d rather see (or hear) that Enchant can do music the way they want and not be tailored into some “generic” modern rock rubbish.

I’m not that familiar with their catalog outside of their debut, Blueprint of the World and Juggling 9, Dropping 10. Which I resold because the music was too in your face and not enough melodies for me. So I really can’t give proper comparisons to the rest of their music. They came back with Blink of An Eye and rekindled my interest in the band. I’ll definitely search out their other releases in the near future.

I’m also excited to get to see them live at CalProg in Whittier, California on July 3rd. If you know this band, and haven’t purchased Blink of An Eye, do yourself a big favor and get a copy, in fact get the limited edition if still available.

Reviewed by Ron Fuchs on April 25th, 2004

Band Members:

Doug Ott - Guitars, keyboards

Ed Platt - Bass

Sean Flanegan - Drums

Ted Leonard - Vocals

with:

Phil Bennett - Keyboards solos, additional keayboards (Tracks 3, 7 on regular edition)

Ted Leonard - Additional guitar (Track 9)

Doug Ott - Bass (Track 5)