Lotus Effect "Totality"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Alternative Progressive Metal
Format: CD, digital
Release date: October 21, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. God Particle - 2:47
2. Window Panes - 3:20
3. Hangman - 5:09
4. Try Harder - 4:49
5. Totality - 5:52
6. Pumapunku - 2:16
7. Coronium - 5:11
8. Saviour - 4:11
9. Promise - 6:18
10. Cutting - 6:10
11. Supernova - 8:52

Line-up: 
Dre Giles- Vocals
Ricki Marquez- Guitar
Vincent Fink - Bass
Chris Ardoin - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

I’m not sure if The Lotus Effect quite meant for it to happen the way it did (although I suspect they might’ve), but taken as a whole, Totality feels like a concept album in the purest sense of the word — there’s no real “story” to speak of, unlike a lot of “concept” albums, although there is a similarity in scope to, say, Coheed and Cambria’s The Second Stage Turbine Blade. Rather, this is an album about one specific concept.
Not that I completely grasp that concept, mind you. It’s right there in the name, Totality; the overall idea (going mostly by the spoken-word tracks, “God Particle” and “Supernova,” that bookend the album) seems to be that all faiths, all science, all knowledge or belief of any kind is only part of the Big Picture, all facets of the same overarching whole. And with the songs, the band is exploring the nature of that all-encompassing gigantic thing. I think that’s what they’re doing, anyway.
Of course, that’s not to say that all of Totality is high-minded philosophizing; it’s actually more of the man on the ground’s attempt to reach that point of enlightenment, where it all makes sense, and being human, y’know, there are pitfalls and emotional trainwrecks along the way.

 Read the full review at spacecityrock.com

Media/Samples 
Totality
Window Panes
Try Harder
Promise

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