IMAGES AND WORDS

Excellent compromise. I'm sure, it is said almost everything concerning this very album, so I'm not going to praise it with all that pompous epithets and to eulogize it again and again. Not that I don't like, quite the contrary. But there is something more than the music itself, it's composition and performance, emotions and atmosphere that draws me to Images And Words over and over again. It's all about the astounding spirit of the record, which became a sublime middle ground between the "old" and the "new" music. I can hardly convey this feeling, a kind of perception ? the music is just balancing on the edge between that old school, sincere feel and fresh, sensible and precise approach. Not only the production is responsible for it, but yet the exceptional blend of all the components, of which the most indispensable became the talent and real thorough and HARD work of all the members. Their not inveterate, but at the same time already mature musical perception, creativity and conveyance moulded such a product to which I can't but do justice and which can be considered not only as metal or progressive, but as the intricate, yet beautiful and versatile music indeed.