Lodestar - Polaris Review

“Polaris” is Lodestar’s third album and we had the honor of reviewing their sophomore release 2022’s “Event Horizon.” Both albums, by the way, tell a lot about the themes the band like to inspire on to write their songs. If you said science fiction and everything related you are right.

I always say that having the opportunity to review a band’s albums in a sequence gives me the change of getting to know how the band is evolving. Well, there is a lot of change from “Polaris” to “Event Horizon” I have to tell you my dear child of the night. Instead of flirting with Doom Metal as its predecessor did, “Polaris” flertes with a more melodic school of Metal music. I’d say they got very near a Symphonic Metal grip, but it’s not exactly it. Maybe Gothic Metal would be better.

The album still maintains the fuzz guitars and their heavyness as it’s possible to check with “In Your Shadow” with long guitar strummings full of fuzz. However, there are tracks as “Distance to Your Light” that keep the Doom Metal spirit. The track has the same nostalgic and melancholic mood as noted before. In general, I found “Polaris” slower than its predecessor. To some extent the nostalgic and melancholic moods are still here, but I felt a strong approach to a more pop grip. Album welcomer “Shooting Star” commences with some electronic effects more related to pop music. Those effects appeared again in other tracks of the album which made me follow this pop theory. On the other hand, there are tracks as the long “World Of Change” that keeps a Post Metal tone many bands are using now. The guitar strummings full of fuzz are everywhere here what makes me thing this is the stapler of Lodestar.

“Polaris” is an album for the fans of moody bands. If you want faster songs, I’ll tell you this is not it.

Lodestar “Polaris” will be independently released on April 26th.

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