FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET

After some spins my opinion didn't change: a musically uninspired work by PT but well played, especially by Garrison. Quite flat and boring at times. No innovation, most of the album is material already heard on other PT records, just a darker general feeling. Metal riffs thrown in without much sense and I am not against metal on principle, but go listen, for example, to Riverside, Opeth or Katatonia last records and you will find metal where the song needs it. In Absentia was much better in this respect. Wilson led PT in this kind of prog metal that I fear is a blind alley. Way Out of Here is the ...best... track, pity it is a bit ruined by the nonsense metal stuff, just to make the under 16 and record company happy.

Of the 8 records i have of PT this is maybe the less interesting. I can understand new fans can be excited by this cd but for old fans, of the TSMS era, it is another story.