Project Renegade is a Greek Alternative/Modern Metal band. On March 31st, 2024, the band released their latest studio album, Ultra Terra. The album was released through Pavement Entertainment and promoted through Angels PR.
Introduction:
Project Renegade, Ultra Terra: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of Ultra Terra
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Project Renegade and their Ultra Terra album.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features guitar work that’s marked by headbanging grooves, enchanting melodies, breakdowns, and memorable hooks with a futuristic tone. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves clean, storming, melodic and aggressive female lead vocals. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Intense and relentless assault of the drums, with aggressive strikes and beats.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Explores the futuristic fringes of a world on the precipice of humanity’s demise.
From the moment the play button is pressed, the listener is enveloped in the electronic atmosphere and audio clip of the opening piece, Critical Mutations. The journey continues with the second piece, 23, introducing a heavy alternated groove, an ambient atmosphere, and a unique blend of clean and harsh female vocals soar above the heavy guitars.
The listener embarks on their journey with the third piece, The Millennial March, and the remaining ten pieces, which take the listener on a musical adventure that explores the futuristic fringes of a world on the precipice of humanity’s demise.
Project Renegade’s music is a captivating fusion of alternative rock/metal, metalcore, nu-metal, groove metal, and heavy metal with electronic and ambient passages. This will immerse the listener in a sonic landscape that is both powerful and aggressive. Marked by headbanging grooves, enchanting melodies, breakdowns, memorable hooks, modern electronic sound, futuristic tone, and expressive and storming vocals, overall creating something that’s both cohesive and powerful.
Moreover, as one delves into the depths of Ultra Terra‘s sounds, a profound emotional undercurrent echoes the resonance of Evanescence and the atmospheric heavy, melodic, and relentlessly melodramatic weight of Luna Coil. This intriguing amalgamation of musical influences and thematic elements enhances the band’s ability to captivate and move its audience on multiple levels.
The album’s emotional depth is a testament to the band’s ability to create fruit of art music that evokes strong feelings in the listener.
The meticulous attention to detail in the production, recording, and sound of Ultra Terra is a testament to the band’s commitment to delivering high-quality music to their listeners. The album’s production values are exceptional. The sound quality is superb, and it’s evident that a great deal of care and attention was put into every element of the composition and devilmanship.
Overall, their music is dynamic, intense, and emotionally charged. If you enjoy a mix of heavy riffs, melodic vocals, and electronic nuances, give Project Renegade a listen!
The album comes to an end with the last song, No Country for White Flags. It greets the listener with an Evanescence atmosphere of Marianna‘s emotional, teardrop vocals, piano, and military drums. This closing piece captures the heart of the lyrics and album—the perfect ending to the album.
We want to give a shoutout to Angels PR for letting us review Project Renegade and their Ultra Terra album. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
You’re Listening to “Token”
PlayThe Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Project Renegade and their Ultra Terra album.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, Project Renegade is the fruit of an art release; from the moment you press the play button, it is loud, alive, and energetic.
Every aspect of the music, from the intricate instrumental arrangements and devilmanship to the passionate vocals by Marianna, showcases the band’s creative prowess. Marianna‘s versatile vocals transition between delicate melodies and powerful expressions, guiding the listener through diverse emotions. Each of the thirteen songs in the album is a standalone fruit of art, offering a rich tapestry of musical innovation and devilmanship, leaving no room for monotony or predictability.
We want to highlight the outstanding songs on Ultra Terra, particularly the ninth and thirteenth tracks. Track nine combines aggression with a heavy electro atmosphere, while the thirteenth leaves me speechless.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
The artwork is simple and focuses more on the music than the cover art.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Project Renegade, and their album Ultra Terra.
This concludes the Project Renegade, Ultra Terra review.
Track-Listing:
- Critical Mutations
- 23
- The Millennial March
- Apex
- The Fix Is In
- Timewave
- My Oath
- Civil Unrest
- Token
- Negative Grey
- Bloodwitch
- Ultra Earth
- No Country For White Flags
Project Renegade is:
- Marianna – vocals
- Ody – drums
- Nick. K – guitar
- Philipp – guitar
- Jay – bass
