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Spiral Architect

Tech/Extreme Prog Metal

3.70 | 150 ratings

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I cannot give a unique rate, because it is necessary to split the music from the voice in reviewing this album. I've chosen three stars just because it is the intermediate one.

THE MUSIC: 5 stars Despite it could be easy to judge "cold" or "mechanic" this kind of music expressivity, we cannot deny we have the opportunity to listen an absolute masterpiece in terms of instrumental techinque. Every prog-metal band must kneel in face of these virtuosisms, time acrobacies, alien riffs, solos. Nothing is never the same: when you believe you are finally listening a "normal" or "square" time, it changes, you have no rest from the beginning to the end. It's hard to believe that this music is played by human beings. I must admit that this sequence of mathematic algorithms is a little bit far from the common concepts of "musical inspiration", "song" or "feeling", but IMHO it is worth to listen it at least to know how far musicians' technique can get. but... THE VOICE: 0 stars The voice is the more unfit thing I ever heard in my life. I don't talk about the singer's techinque, unquestionable, but about his actual "ability" to ruin the whole album. It is irritating, out of place and... present everywhere! Listen to understand. Someone write to the band praying to play instrumental music!

Conclusions: for the ones who aprpreciate the pleasure of music techinique, this album could be a real masterpiece of the last decades, but it's really hard to avoid listening the voice and so enjoy the instrumental parts. But you can try.

lineateorica | 3/5 | 2006-2-27

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