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ELEMENTS

Introitus

 

Neo-Prog

3.88 | 258 ratings

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Mellotron Storm
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3 stars INTROITUS are a seven piece band out of Sweden and they include the four member Bender family. This is a long one and it's a concept album about the four elements of our World as in earth, fire, water and wind. Each of these elements has it's own short song of around 2 minutes or less. The other five tracks are long including that 17 minute closer. This is such a proggy album with excellent musicians to say the least. I was quite impressed and am not surprised by the high ratings for this one. There are some folk flavours here and some FLOYD or MOSTLY AUTUMN sounds, especially the soaring guitar. The drummer is who impresses me the most while the singer is female and very good but just not my style. I mean I thought I was listening to a Disney movie at times, especially the song "Like Always" which is a "yikes" moment for me.

I could not in good conscience give this a 4 star record based on the way I rate. Great sounding album but not my thing for the most part. Lame name too but that's just piling on sorry. This is a talented band and I think I and one other person are the only ones giving this 3 stars so keep that in mind with my rating. My favourite tracks are the element ones. The match being lit on "Fire" but too bad the song wasn't lit(oh boy) and "Water" with of course water sounds and "Wind" well you guessed it, and "Earth", well lets just say it's another instrumental. Synths, guitar, flute and vocals lead the way here for the most part. Kind of a Neo/Symphonic/Folk hybrid you could say. Too sweet for my tastes.

Mellotron Storm | 3/5 |

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