Tomorrow’s Outlook – A Voice Unheard – 2018

A Voice Unheard is another album I wouldn’t have heard if it wasn’t for a commercial campaign on social media. The band Tomorrow’s Outlook claims they’re from northern Norway. It’s kind of refreshing hearing this kind of Metal from Normay. Maybe I’m narrowminded but I associated Norwegian Metal first and foremost with the dark Black Metal Scene. Tomorrow’s Outlook is certainly not Black Metal. They have pretty catchy tunes and it’s hard to really put a label on them. It’s part Power Metal, part Hardrocj, and maybe even part Progressive Metal. I can’ät find very much information about them online. Not that I searched very hard but I usually want to read up a little bit about bands I know nothing about.

I’m not sure if it’s really a band at all. From the little information, I found it seems that it’s more or less one guy, or maybe a couple of guys at the core who are hiring other (studio) musicians. Don’t take my word for it though.

But it fits the sound. All songs on A Voice Unheard are very well written and performed. There is no doubt about that. Almost too well performed actually. So good that I get the feeling that they have spent a massive amount of time in the studio to get everything right. Which in turn takes away some of the energy. There is no “live” feeling to the album if you know what I mean. That could, of course, be the way that they wanted it to sound. I’ve made assumptions in the past where I had opinions on the sound and the band actually was going for just that sound. Each one to his own I guess.

But I liked the album. The songs are better one by one in my book. There’s a little too much music and as I feel the lack of energy it becomes kind of tedious after a while. But there’s a new album coming up according to the band’s Facebook page. It will be interesting to hear what that sounds like. Until then, rock on!