ENTROPIA

Pain Of Salvation

Progressive Metal

4.09 | 627 ratings

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ZowieZiggy
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UNDER "DREAM THEATER" INFLUENCE.

No doubt about this while listening to this album. Same sort of riffs, great guitar breaks, dual mood: from heavy metal to mellow sounds ("Oblivion Ocean") and discreet keyboards. IMHHO, very much more metal than prog.

Still, "Entropia" is a strong album. The archetype of the genre, finally. I guess that a song as "Winning A War" is expected by the fans, even if it holds too many clich�s as far as I am concerned. But I'm not a deep lover of this genre.

Guitar work is the highlight throughout the whole album; but the rhythmic section does a very fine job as well. Versatile and powerful during "People Passing By", the band combines melody and metal sounds quite nicely. Just as DT did.Nothing new under the prog metal world I'm afraid; even if the final guitar break is just gorgeous and emotional.

POS is not really inventing anything during "Revival". All of the same, you know: heavy riff and melodic guitar solo. This is rather predictable, isn't it? As the whole of this long work.

There is even an attempt on a true symphonic prog track! The beautiful (but short) instrumental "Void Of Her" (at least during the first part, since it sounds difficult for the band to get concentrate on something else than these metal sounds). POS is also releasing a rock ballad (if you would except the last ninety seconds which are just wild), with some melowish vocals (Plains Of Dawn). But this is not the best out of this work.

I can't find anything extraordinary in here. Plain metal music combined at times with some melodic lines. A good album, no more. Three stars.

ZowieZiggy | 3/5 | 2008-8-31

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