ONE IN A MILLION
Poverty's No Crime
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Studio Album, released in 2001 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. The stolen eye (1:16) - Marco Ahrens / guitars
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POVERTY'S NO CRIME One in a Million ratings distribution
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Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(10%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(45%)
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PROG REVIEWER

The musicians are playing tight and heavy riffs with technically brilliance. The vocalist though is just OK, and he's not one of the best in the genre. If you're unfamiliar with POVERTY'S NO CRIME they have reminiscent to DREAM THEATER, RUSH, THRESHOLD and VANDEN PLAS. The first limited pressing contains RUSH's "Distant Early Warning" as a bonus track. It's impressive however that they dare to cover RUSH, but they don't get away with it that good.
Although their professionalism and technical skills their music doesn't leave any lasting impressions. As the progressive metal genre is quite over-represented right now, you'll have to be really special to become interesting. It doesn't matter how well-performed the music is, because they won't be "One In A Million" as long as they lack originality.
PROG REVIEWER

Their mains influence is surely Rush, enhanced here by their fine cover version of Red Sector A, but the bands sound is much more than that and - mercifully - their Rush influences do not include high pitch vocals like so many others. Geddy Lee is not easy to imitate and I´m thankful this band does not try it.In fact, Volker Weisemann´s voice is quite unique and fits just perfect to this style. This is a very good album that balances equally the powerful aproach of heavy metal with the subtletly and complexity of prog without sacrifying nothing of melody. Recommended!
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SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Crossover Prog Team

On the plus side, there is a great version of Rush's "Distant Early Warning", another band that also suffered at times from too much fiddling in the studio (it is easily one of the best Rush covers/tributes I have ever heard). I did enjoy the album but will probably be turning to label- mates Threshold for this type of music.
Originally appeared in Feedback 63, July 01
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Not very commercially named, Poverty' no crime are criminally underrated. They are not groundbreaking or flashy, just melodic
progressive hard rock/metal with emphasis on the compositions and good lyrics. I know that's not much of a description, but when
they stick to their strength of 7-minute
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Report this review (#1012207) | Posted by Progrussia | Tuesday, August 6, 2013 | Review Permanlink
Man! Ancient Lies could be the most exciting song i ever heard in the last 5 years! the rest
of the album it´s good, but become some repetitive after every track. Drums are real good
and the voice is very impressive. The rest of the band are the classical band of metal prog,
skilled and fully
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Report this review (#28863) | Posted by | Wednesday, May 5, 2004 | Review Permanlink
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