The Quiet Room
Reconceive
[Metal Blade]
11 tracks - 54:46
Blech. Maybe it's because I got burned out on prog music due to my early days in my earlier (unnamed) bands, but this seems most guilty of the problem that almost all prog bands face - seeming pompous and self-important. Sonically it's a bit heavier than what most people think of as prog-metal: imagine that 'chugga' sound of Pantera but with those odd-time rhythms popularized by Dream Theater, overlaid with some keyboards/pianos that range from out-of-place to downright annoying and a vocalist that sounds like James Hetfield might sound if he tried today to sing like he did back in 1984. But 'groove' just doesn't make heavy, and it seems to undermine technicality. I don't know - to my mind the mix of what they're trying to do just doesn't work the way they put it together. For the popular metal crowd this is probably right up your alley, but for us die-hards and underground junkies it just doesn't work.
© 2000 lord vic
[ originally appeared in EFW#9 ]
Blech. Maybe it's because I got burned out on prog music due to my early days in my earlier (unnamed) bands, but this seems most guilty of the problem that almost all prog bands face - seeming pompous and self-important. Sonically it's a bit heavier than what most people think of as prog-metal: imagine that 'chugga' sound of Pantera but with those odd-time rhythms popularized by Dream Theater, overlaid with some keyboards/pianos that range from out-of-place to downright annoying and a vocalist that sounds like James Hetfield might sound if he tried today to sing like he did back in 1984. But 'groove' just doesn't make heavy, and it seems to undermine technicality. I don't know - to my mind the mix of what they're trying to do just doesn't work the way they put it together. For the popular metal crowd this is probably right up your alley, but for us die-hards and underground junkies it just doesn't work.
© 2000 lord vic
[ originally appeared in EFW#9 ]