Review by Vladimir on October 30, 2024.

Jester Majesty is a new blood of progressive metal in the Italian music scene, hailing from Turin, Piedmont, and now coming back with a good taste of its strength. The band released two independent singles this year, 'The Heart-Shaped Void' and 'Defiances Of Natural Laws', but as of recently, the new independent EP Plains Of Heaven was announced with a release date of October 31st, 2024, featuring three new tracks. If you love some progressive heavy metal and you also wish to stick around for this one, feel free to do so folks. 

Plains Of Heaven provides a total of three following tracks: 'Thanatos', 'Memoryless Property' and 'Plains Of Heaven', all of which provide a solid display of progressive metal with heavy guitar riffs, clean singing vocals, and occasional synths, keyboards, and organs, but with the addition of intense atmospheric twist. The whole EP is just 10 minutes and 17 seconds long, but in its entirety, it provides an interesting range of musical ideas that twist around and play with the various forms of musical progression, as the riffing becomes gradually heavier and exploring new territories the further it goes. 

Jester Majesty’s songwriting approach on this EP provided tons of dynamic ideas that mixed together to form rich and complex song structures with banger riffs, neoclassical guitar solos, and Jordan Rudess-inspired keyboard solo on 'Plains Of Heaven', all of which add such wonderful flavor to it. Even though the journey itself seems quite short, the band successfully managed to express musically in different ways throughout all three tracks, whereas the overall performance stays incredibly tight and engaging all the way through. The two previously released singles 'The Heart-Shaped Void' and 'Defiances Of Natural Laws' gave a very good hint at the musical direction of Jester Majesty, especially with the frequent and clever use of John Martin’s paintings as artworks, but these new songs give a good glimpse at the band’s ever-expanding horizon that could only achieve greater things in the near future, so I am really curious to see where the band will go from here. Aside from the solid musical execution, the top-notch sound production is also superb for the heavy progressive metal output of Jester Majesty, thanks to the studio magic of Bulgarian producer Nikola Zanev, who already proved his worth on the two previous singles. 

If you like heavy and punchy progressive metal that provides a very good musical scenery, I recommend that you check out the three track EP Plains Of Heaven by Jester Majesty. It may not be much at first glance, but it sure is honest work, and I truly hope we will get one great full-length album in the near future, that will display Jester Majesty at its full glory.

Rating: 7.9 out of 10