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SECOND LIFE SYNDROME

Riverside

 

Progressive Metal

4.25 | 1873 ratings

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alainPP
5 stars 1. After I can't take anymore, that's all said... whispered such is destiny, the swelling wind and the gentle explosion, a voice, a pad, a riverside song; what will this second opus be like after the dantesque 'Out of Myself'? a slow, melting rise, soft, latent, expectant; Piotr who launches the killer solo, a spleen in the sense of Steve from MARILLION 2. Volte-Face continues, dark, spatial from beyond the grave just before having the air that goes into your ears, yes I have been a fan of this group for a very long time, since their beginnings, yes I saw them with a small French group in the first part, yes I said hello to Piotr, he turns around and one speaks to me in Polish, well yes Polish blood also flows in my veins; well we almost forgot this mo-oriental solo, half-demon, half-hard as it should be; a bass hit and Mariusz says hello, 3 minutes have passed anyway; the sound of 1000 and 1 nights comes to light and takes us by surprise with this growl coming from nowhere which floods my swimsuit, ah how good it is; RIVERSIDE or the last decade of new prog; hold an Andalusian air or almost on the languorous piano-guitar, how good it is... yes I repeat myself; well if I tell you that it's the best climb in a long time, that the groove is giant, that the drums beat faster than my feet which move with joy, that... excellent 3. Conceiving You for 3'40 of pure happiness, so I won't say anything...yes I write like that it will go down better; the killer title, too sensitive, too emotional, too spleen, too Piotr with his legendary guitar, the guy who made me forget Steve's scales for a while, yes there is something extra in this group; in short conceiving you.... ah that I listened to it on the verge of tears in 2005, knowing that prog could not finally die with them 4. Second Life Syndrome and the intro that even PINK FLOYD didn't think to do; guitar from up there, synth from Michał who is a very good organist by the way; Come on, it's going up... come on, that's it, are you well settled? the melodic tune that tears your heart out, let's go for the riff, yes you see it... well it's sweet in the end a dry hit from Piotr... the second; there's Hammond too, it heats up, it rises and the chorus is too recognizable before arriving; the crescendo in perpetual evolution, Piotr gets started, he throws the notes, it goes up, we feel like in 'Volte-face' a desire for demonic growl, just what we need, just what we need wait because in concert we like it when it's heavier; the bass is just whirring; 3 parts for the eponymous title and a little exhibition there; how to release new blood, a new sound without showing reminiscences of older groups? How? The breath of the rhythmic base vibrates in my speakers and reveals the insulation wool, it's pleasant, it feels like Misplaced with the drum roll/rumble, a little instrumental voice and off we go for fury ; it's vicious, it's orgasmic, you start to mime Michal who distills this sound of a living organ; you are strange, yes in a trance you are; Well, I've been there with them for 10 years... eh, it's going to be 20 years, Ok so let's go... the climb and Piotr's last solo which makes you climb even higher, what's it like? possible... intoxicating, transcendent, stunning, orgasmic! Well, I'll leave you for the last minute! 5. Artificial Smile title with the fast intro, the gut-wrenching riff, the bewitched voice bordering on I'm going to scream; the more the keyboards and the guitar which engage in a duel, well we arrive at Piotr's solo I calm down it's so good; let's take a riff and we move up the scale... that's the moment we've been waiting for, this demonic growl is coming at us from the front, it's going to scare away the progueux with his walker, great for both; moment of contemplation, well we don't have time to recover as it picks up MUCH STRONGER for a Dantesque finale.

6. I Turned You Down for the bass to Mariusz and Piotr immediately who makes his guitar cry, so many memories in this small room, bastille scene in November it was cold... but very hot inside, well that's the fault it's a spleen of spleen if I tell all that; a title based on the slow rise cut by this riff that a hardcore guy would like to reproduce on stage, violent and hypnotic at the same time; ah we go to another continent suddenly and the osmosis with Steve who you know happens perfectly 7. Reality Dream III continues and brings back good memories...a III like SAGA with its chapters, there the III following I and II of the 1st album; a latent rise that can only explode... ah this riff I put it back, aj Michal arrives and goes all out with his keyboards, yes the riff comes back even stronger, as soon as I calm down my heart will pass; Piotr goes off on a solo of which he has the secret, it looks like the same plaintive, we experience it differently lamenting, we feel it hard, heavy, it's a fact, we experience it magnificently realized... ah it's not hard he said this year at hellfest.... but what is that? Michał adds another layer, even Dantesque. 8. Dance with the Shadow... well for the moment there's no way to breathe, it's shooting everywhere, so I'm taking advantage of this piece... yes I know it, to breathe a little; soaring, reverberant, atmospheric, devilish... bam it starts, you shouldn't have to stand there waiting candidly... if you didn't know, too bad for you... you missed the musical train; How is it that some people don't listen to everything from a band, from an album reveling in dinosaurs and nothing else? Well, I'm not going to make these people feel guilty, although... Well, next time, we're in the sub-Mediterranean space, and Mariusz is getting a little growl again, just enjoyable; oh there Michał gets started and twirls his buttons, ah the bass that vibrates you and here we go for the thunderous break... I had written and said that there was a hypnotic, trance-inducing sound in it ... I confirm; ah this melancholic sound that we find in the extremely depressive MY DYING BRIDE... the finale sends you to the ropes of the musical ring, to the edges of the different continents that you have reviewed, it plays the battle, it swells, it swells, respect... no prog, dark metal, the sound at the RIVERSIDE will not die far from there, too good, too beautiful 9. Before... yes I didn't remember it anymore, like a booster shot... when it's a vaccine, a real one, not a lab thing that cures, that also kills, such is your destiny; in short the title to calm down a little, to come back to earth, to return to this port of the bastille scene where I had seen them for the first time, it was yesterday; pad roll, spleenante guitar, the tribal air, the new-wave bass, the riff on top, that's it I wanted to calm down, here I am taken back into a trance-like air in which I can't let go; the climb one more, the piano added, everything is done to have the perfect album... I'm going to have to overrate it, an 11, a 12 in view of certain notations, where is the world going? Well I leave you with the last thunderous orgasmic crescendo! masterpiece!

alainPP | 5/5 |

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