Triosphere – The Road Less Traveled (2010)

Powered by Ida Haukland’s powerful vocals, today we have Triosphere and their second full-length release “The Road Less Traveled”. This album features a very interesting combination of Power Metal with some Progressive elements and hugely characteristic female vocals. We get tons of female fronted bands each year, but Triosphere immediately stands out because of her singer’s more ‘old school’ deeper vocal style.

With over 50 minutes of music, “The Road Less Traveled” makes a huge impression since the beginning with a very powerful opening (after the intro) Progressive/Power Metal sound, then it quickly mellows down to a more slower but equally impressive sound that shifts between the previously mentioned genres but focusing more on guitar and vocal melodies that at some points they hit hard rock territories.

With the sound that Triosphere has, we thought that the band was from Germany or somewhere like that but to our surprise they hail from Norway. The band’s sound is very original in our opinion since they merge the technical elements of Power/Progressive Metal with Hard Rock elements seamlessly, creating very powerful guitar and vocal driven melodies that are not overly complicated but still technical enough to please snobs of the genre.

The guitar work on “The Road Less Traveled” is beyond excellent going from catchy melody to full-on Power/Progressive Metal flair. The melodies created by the guitars are graciously adorned by Ida’s powerful vocals that sound like nobody else these days. Rounding up the mix, we have the brilliantly executed drums and a powerful bass guitar line that will resonate on your speakers from start to end of this album.

As you can imagine, we are hugely impressed by “The Road Less Traveled” since this album has everything: powerful vocals and greatly written and executed melodic music that never gets old, no matter how many times we listen to this album. If you like Power Metal, Progressive Metal, or even old-school Hard Rock/Heavy Metal releases, you will LOVE Triosphere since the band has a powerful and modern sound that perfectly incorporates elements of old school Metal/Rock that we all love.

Release: May 28th, 2010

Country: Norway