THREE NEURON KINGS

The music is technical metal with both growling and clean vocals. There´s a very noticable accent which I can´t help find a bit comical at times, but other times it´s not that bad. The album consists of four songs and have a playing time of 21:27 minutes so you get something for your money here on Three Neuron Kings if you prefer quantity over quality because quite frankly I´m not too impressed with the style Disillusion play on Three Neuron Kings.

As such the quality in the riffing is high, but the music is not very original and the singing doesn´t soothe my ears. The growling vocal isn´t agressive enough for me and the clean vocal isn´t beautiful enough. It´s an aquired taste for sure, but personally I don´t like the vocals which leaves me with the music. The music is of high quality with tempo and time signature changes as we´re used to from tech metal bands, but it´s very german sounding to me which means the musicians never let loose but seem very pretentious and some of the song writing is pretty anthemic like the title track which is a feature I seldom like in metal. Some bands pull it off while others sound like fools. Disillusion unfortunately falls into the latter catagory.

The musicianship is good, but as said before I don´t like the vocals.

The production is allright without bringing too much to the music IMO though.

This is a debut but Disillusion must improve radically on their following releases to get good reviews from me. As I said the quality in the riffing is high but the songwriting and the german accent do me in. This one probably deserves 3 stars, but as I don´t like it much I will rate it 2.