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SCARSICK

Pain Of Salvation

 

Progressive Metal

3.23 | 654 ratings

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Windhawk
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4 stars This release looks like it will be the most controversial release of 2007.

PoS doesn't make it easy for their fans, or for fans of prog metal in general here, as doing it safe seems to be a missing element in the bands collective personality.

Thus they release an album of a highly experimental nature, where hardly any song sounds the same. Opening with a song heavily flirting with nu metal, continuing into Eminem territory (although heavily spiced with fuzz guitar), continuing with a c&w flavoured AOR song, moving on to a more funk-inspired song and then in track 5 having their own version of what disco should sound like.

Continuing with a ballady tune evolving into a dark metal tune, then it's a guitar/vocals experimental track, before there's three "normal" sounding tracks finishing this beast off.

Highly experimental, and listeners need ecclectic taste as well as patience to be able to enjoy this one. Personally I'd place it somewhere inbetween average and good (or good to excellent as ratings go here), and the pure amount of courage shown in releasing such an experimental album makes me rate higher rather than lower.

Windhawk | 4/5 |

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