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Redemption - The Origins Of Ruin / By Chuy

10/10

Impressive third album from the LA’s prog metal band Redemption, The Origins of Ruin is their best work, they consolidates, and now they are a top band, Nick is a musical genius, expose openly their ideas and feelings, incredibly emotional, he traduces all these ideas and feelings in music and lyrics, it’s perfect, this is write, play and sing with the heart, but they don’t forget the technical and heavy parts, pretty amazing!!!, all the prog metal should be like this; The album is conformed by nine tracks, two bonus tracks for the Japanese edition, almost an hour for the normal edition, each song is special, like Nick’s says about Suffocating Silence song: “The trademarks that Redemption has in our music: heavy but melodic, complex but song-oriented, a lot of “urgency” or tension to the music”, this “urgency or tension in the music” are instrumental parts and it’s when the band plays faster at the same time, this “urgency or tension” came in the entire album, the tension in the keyboards and piano parts are amazing, also orchestrations, these gives an excellent touch to the music, it seems that your heart come out from your chest; Ray’s voice simply awesome, singing with a special sentiment, Sean Andrews debut with a remarkable work in this album, he is a notable bassist, Chris and Bernie improves each album recorded, now we’re waiting for the tour, it will be excellent!!!

You can buy this album HERE!

1. The Suffocating Silence
2. Bleed Me Dry
3. The Death of Faith & Reason
4. Memory
5. The Origins of Ruin
6. Man of Glass
7. Blind My Eyes
8. Used to Be
9. Fall on You
10. Precious Things (cover song Tori Amos)
11. Love To Love (cover song UFO)

2007 - INSIDE OUT MUSIC (Worldwide)
2007 - DINGWALL MUSIC (Japan)

Redemption is:


Ray Alder (vocals)
Nicolas van Dyk (guitars, keyboards)
Bernie Versailles (guitars)
Sean Andrews (bass)
Chris Quirarte (drums)

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Sunday, 29 August 2010
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Quandary, Ready To Fail 9 1/2 /10
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Monday, 23 August 2010
Quandary, Ready To Fail   9 1/2 /10

 

 

 

 

Every now and then, a young band comes along that leaves you in no doubt you are listening to something really special. Quandary from Australia has definately left me feeling that way.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 August 2010 )
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VoTuM – Metafiction (2009) – Review by Logan Lee
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Thursday, 12 August 2010

VoTuM – Metafiction (2009) – Review by Logan Lee



 


 

      Another great band from Eastern Europe, this time from Poland. Votum is a quite interesting reality of the late 2000’s. They have started a bit heavier than what shown on this particular album (Metafiction), but those who will have the chance to get this CD will understand the reason why I am happy they have changed their style into a more progressive way. Their first album was very normal (nothing to add to prog scenario), but this Metafiction work, which by the way was made under Mystic Records that must receive lots of compliments since they are doing an excellent work promoting bands from that part of Europe, has something more. Great music and amazing lyrics to bind the entire album, creating a melancholy atmosphere that leads listeners into a more committed hearing session. I wouldn’t go as far as some of my friends who compared Votum to Porcupine Tree or Riverside (a fantastic Eastern Prog Band), but if you are listening Votum for the first time you might experience that sensation as well.

     

Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 August 2010 )
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Subject To Thoughts 8/10
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Sunday, 18 July 2010

Subject To Thoughts 8/10

 

Subject to Thoughts are a relatively unknown Prog band from the US that have been around for a few years now, I think this band deserves more attention with the album The Culmination. The members are Mark Mendieta, Keys, Bass, Drums, Guitar and Brandon Strader on lead guitar and Vocals. The sound is Ambient Progressive with Doomy elements and the keyboards really add a forboding and somewhat eerie feeling. Some great tracks include "Since The Inception" "One Day" and the title track "The Culmination" and as with most STT Cds they are 70 minutes plus. The vocals by Brandon sometimes appear strained but I honestly believe that this adds to the whole atmosphere and  meloncholy feel the band is trying to achieve on this release...

 

 

Last Updated ( Sunday, 18 July 2010 )
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Vanden Plas – The Seraphic Clockwork (2010) – Review by Logan Lee
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Vanden Plas – The Seraphic Clockwork (2010) – Review by Logan Lee



 

            After a 4 years wait since Vanden Plas’ last album (the extraordinary Christ O), some side projects and a change of discography record company (from Inside Out to Frontiers Records) Vanden Plas has returned with a brand new concept CD called The Seraphic Clockwork. The story, as explained by the band itself (the story was written by Andy Kuntz),  is about a journey from 16th century Rome to sacred land Jerusalem in the year 33 A.D. (obviously a time and space travel); The protagonist, after an apocalyptic vision, has come under the spell of an Old Testament prophecy and must travel back through the centuries to face his God-given destiny. Vanden Plas has perfectly combined their recent achieved theater experience with their consecrated ability on progressive metal. I have talked with some colleagues and looked around on the net for other opinions and almost everybody thinks that this is the best Vanden Plas ever but even if I agree with them for what concerns lyrics’ composition I still believe that as a whole Christ O is a half degree above (meaning that this album is their second best, which is still a good thing since the above mentioned album is a masterpiece in my very humble opinion). Nevertheless, this band is digging deep into progressive and symphonic foundations finding some quite amazing musical arrangements.

           

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 June 2010 )
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Division by Zero - Independent Harmony (2010) – Review by Logan Lee
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010

Division by Zero - Independent Harmony (2010) – Review by Logan Lee


I have to admit that this is my first time listening to this polish prog metal band and I assure all that it will not be the last since I got surprised by their sound, specially by Slawek Wierny (vocal) flexibility. He manages to vary between prog style and metal style (a bit like Akerfeldt from Opeth) with quite competence.


Last Updated ( Tuesday, 08 June 2010 )
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Disperse, Journey Through The Hidden Gardens 10/10
User Rating: / 5
Thursday, 20 May 2010

 

 

Without a doubt Poland is the hub of all thing Prog and we have a band that just might possibly be the best of all of them and that includes Riverside. I love bands that draw you in from the very opening track and the album just gets better. The vocalist Rafal Biernacki reminds me somewhat of the Lord Of Mushrooms singer and is great on this disc. The one thing for me that stands out apart from the amazing melodies is the Guitar playing from Jakub Zytecki, he really is an amazingly talented guy who can create wonderful emotions!!

Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 May 2010 )
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Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony & Angels of Babylon (2010) – Review by Logan Lee
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony & Angels of Babylon (2010) – Review by Logan Lee

 

           

 

Due to personal issues, I was not into music these last days. But when I was asked to prepare this review I suddenly regained strength and that really is the greatest Avantasia feature - the ability to lift up spirits with their music. I did not even know that Mr. Sammet was preparing a new release and when I saw there were TWO CDs to hear I ran and got them.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 12 May 2010 )
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Interview with Tommy Hansen !!!
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Thursday, 22 April 2010

We recentlly contacted respected Producer Tommy Hansen (Mixer of Helloween, Jørn Lande, Circus Maximus, etc.) for and interview, here it is!:


1.- Wat's the first thing you consider when mixing a band?

 

The sound design is the first decision. Should the drums be wet or dry?
Back in the eighties the drums used to be very wet - now a days they are normally a lot dryer.

Next decision - should the guitars be loud? (Yes - always) If there is a lot of keyboards going on,
maybe the guitars will come down a bit.

Next decision - Will I need to re-amp the bass?
Very often it brings out the bass better, if it gets distorted. However, the bass will always suffer from
the loud guitars, so you may not hear the bass very clear and loud, but you'll miss it if it went out completely.

Next decision - Vocal sound. Should it be wet or dry? I always use some delay and reverb and harmonizer to get a great
vocal sound. The question is more like how much effect should be added. The eq and compression is very important too.
Getting those right, brings out the magic of the vocal performance.

Finally the master eq/compression shall be set. These days everybody expect loud records, so the only way to get that loud,
is by use of limiter and booster. I use several of them to get there, rather than using one unit a lot, I tend to use more units with less effect.


Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 April 2010 )
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