A Last Day on Earth

All of the A LAST DAY ON EARTH’s musicians, without any exception, shows us an excellence that could not be possible to a band of teenage beginners. We can feel this unity from the very first sounds of Between Mirrors and Portraits and is, certainly, because of the vast experience that the players acquired in previous and different projects and acts such as the Sunwebbs, Sereal, Mind Probes, Ad Noctum or Hypnotic Sessions... Leiria is the city that hosts the band since it formed back in 2005, but its most natural born place would be California’s Orange County, where the primary hardcore crossovers happened. The A LAST DAY ON EARTH’s music is deliberately sensitive and sentimental, but the content of its hybrid aim and the power of its melodic and rhythmic structures, take them far safely from an eventual annoying status. Valter Geraldes voice is the driving force of the assorted emotional states induced while we listening to Between Mirrors and Portraits. Despite of giving us the idea of a “last day on earth" and leading us into a world full of mirrors whose pictures are not reflected, one of the main qualities of the A LAST DAY ON EARTH’s music is that we can find in almost songs, mutations and smooth changes: even if they are not properly the ultimate storm’s visible rainbow, surely they are slight signs of hope, as if it in the end of the story we could find something else, unremarkable, impossible to categorize, but with an unquestionable and liable existence. "Gone", the epic and fantastic song that closes this essential masterpiece, gives us precisely this sense of journey in a search of something truly earthly divine throughout the infinite outer space... A LAST DAY ON EARTH’s Between Mirrors and Portraits is, undeniably, a surprising and auspicious work that deserves all the attention of both truly heavy stuff headbanger fanatics and open-minded common music lovers!