Technically, The Raging Project is French songwriter, vocalist, keyboardist and producer Ivan Jacquin. But he recruited a long list of musicians and singers to help create Future Days -- a sweeping concept album of sorts in which each song is intended to be an introspective journey through the eyes of traveling spirits all over the globe. Its overarching theme: Does the human race deserve to be saved from mad power and never-ending technology? Or should it be allowed to falter and fail?
Heady stuff, with music to match. This is modern and aggressive prog-metal with hints of industrial and electronic music, delivered by talented French artists -- plus Derek Sherinian(!) on keyboards and theremin for the album’s longest track, the spacey “On Earth.”
If the name “The Raging Project” sounds at least vaguely familiar, that’s because a previous incarnation -- in the late 2000s with Jacquin, one other musician and a female vocalist -- generated some buzz in Europe after releasing a self-titled five-song EP. All of those songs have been reimagined for Future Days, and join five other songs and two bonus tracks, to make the revival of The Raging Project complete.
Track Listing
1. Warning
2. Rage!
3. Don’t Want
4. Colére
5. Even If I Bleed
6. I Wanna Dance
7. Ambient
8. Turn
9. On Earth
10. Procession
11. Wrath (Bonus Track -- “Colére” English Version)
12. Meme Si Je Saigne (Bonus Track -- “Even If I Bleed” French Version)
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