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12:5

Pain Of Salvation

 

Progressive Metal

4.41 | 325 ratings

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Rune2000
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4 stars It's been a while since I've heard a live recording worthy of that title. Fortunately when Pain Of Salvation decided to release their first live album they really made an effort of making it as memorable as possible.

Reworking the studio material is one thing but restructuring compositions into one fluent stream of music and doing it in a semi-acoustic setting is bound to become one spectacular show. What they did may not have sounded like anything original on paper but the results speak for themselves.

The material comes from Entropia, The Perfect Element Part 1 and Remedy Lane. I never understood why the material off One Hour By The Concrete Lake was omitted so if anyone knows then, by all means, please enlighten me!

It's true that I've never given Entropia and Remedy Lane a fair chance but the material that I did hear didn't seem that impressive so I welcomed all the new re-imaginings of the individual compositions from those album's. Come to think of it, this album might become a really great introduction album to Pain Of Salvation's music since after hearing it you will later remember and recognize bits and pieces of it when exploring the studio albums without actually realizing that you've already heard those melodies here first!

My personal favorite performances here are Brickwork I aka Leaving Entropia because it improved the badly recorded and mixed original version by at least 150% with this luscious version. I used to think that Second Love from Remedy Lane was a sort of tribute to the famous Scorpions power ballads, but the transition that the track has undergone on Brickwork VIII makes it sound just right in the Pain Of Salvation arsenal. I also have to give an honorable mention to Brickwork IX which is a different take of Ashes which I never really cared for on The Perfect Element Part 1 but, let's just say that, I will never neglect this version!

This is another highly creative album that should be heard by everyone who wants to get into Pain Of Salvation. Personally I still consider The Perfect Element Part 1 to be the band's must have album but 12:5 is definitely not far behind!

***** star songs: Brickwork I (5:44) Dryad Of The Woods (5:37) Chain Sling (4:25) Brickwork VIII (4:12) Brickwork IX (5:12)

**** star songs: Brickwork II (2:35) Brickwork III (1:23) Brickwork IV (0:37) Brickwork V (0:48) Winning A War (7:52) Oblivion Ocean (5:18) Undertow (5:46) Brickwork VI (1:39) Brickwork VII (1:19) Brickwork X (3:51)

*** star songs: Reconciliation (4:22)

Rune2000 | 4/5 |

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