THE MUSIC THAT WILL HEAL THE WORLD

Same as the Marco Sfogli release I bought this album thanks to listening to the stream tracks on progarchives when I was checking out all progmetalbands. This was one of the better ones so I went to the store for it.

I have to say, now that I heard the entire album several times it's not really what I expected. And that's surprising because they had at least half the album put on stream here so I had the opportunity to get a good idea of what it has to offer. That's partly due to the fact they put the best tracks on stream and also because I haven't really been very critical when I was judging. Not that I'm extremely disappointed about the whole thing and want to call it poor because that's not quite the case. Maybe I should have been more aware of the vocals of this band because they spoil a lot of the fun for me. This is not really good singing to me, it's more like screeching most of the time. It sounds forced as if it costs a lot of effort. The rest of the performing isn't bad at all, at least this is true prog metal with enough progressive elements to be in this category. The compositions are pretty complex at times and provide listening pleasure but I do have the feeling they could grow in this department.

I hope they do and give priority to the instrumental passages in their music. Maybe they can grow towards the 4 star league in that case. For now it will have to be 3 stars (3,25).