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Evergrey

Progressive Metal

3.52 | 92 ratings

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Bonnek
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SDT is a good improvement over the debut. Evergrey continued their dark take on prog metal with improved production standards and another set of impressive metal songs.

The sound isn't perfect yet, the drums especially are a bit dry and the overall balance is a bit strange, the vocals don't sound integrated and the keyboards are a bit too much to the fore. But this imperfection give this album a rough edge, something they would unfortunately polish up on later albums. This is an organic and sincere sounding album, something which I always find quite an achievement in metal, which usually suffers from too loud and overstressed productions and unwaveringly high volume levels. Evergrey sounds dynamic and rocking.

Evergrey do not avoid another typical metal feature though. All songs follow the same pattern too much to make a real claim at progginess: upbeat, aggressive and dark riffery, with touches of symphonic keyboards and graced with the wonderful tattered voice of Tom Englund. Given the consistently high quality of the songs the predictable song writing is not a real problem though. 3.5 stars

Bonnek | 4/5 | 2010-2-2

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