THE SUM OF NO EVIL

"The Sum of No Evil" from 2007 is a typical The Flower Kings album. It is long lasting, few and lenghty songs and a funny interesting cover picture. The cover shows a nice band name sign and a Volkswagen bus fish over a religious building, a budistic temple I think. The record was released seven years ago and after this tenth record the band has done two more.

Here, Roine Stolt plays guitar and sings, Tomas Bodin plays keyboards, Jonas Reingold plays bass, Zoltan Csórsz drums and Hasse Fröbergs sings and plays guitar.

Well, the music of Flower Kings is of a special type, definitely not every person likes it. For me it uses to change from time to time. I love some records and songs and hate others. This was almost of the second clasification. It starts quite well with perhaps the records' best "One more time" but then comes "Love is the only answer" with a rather boring text and also the melody is boring in my ears. In that case stretch it so much as now is not a good idea. The other songs are not especially much better they either.

On "The sum of no evil" you, as a listener, will find many ingredients of what The Flower Kings are famous and popular for such as great guitar work and powerful symphonic pieces with long playtime. They are very clever and dompetent but this time it didn't work at all for me. I have listened some times but I can't enjoy what I hear. I know that I should try to be more objektive and judge each record for it's qualities. Now though I had hard to let my personal feelings behind and those feelings don't get frightened or feel any shame for saying that this record unfortunaly mach other of the band or many other prog record. "One more time" is the best song but avoid the others. If you love this band there is a chance you'll like this also but I think two stars is fair right now- perhaps the record wil grow.