Archive for June, 2005

Pain of Salvation 12:5

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

Review by Gatot Widayanto
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4:25:36 AM EST, 6/10/2005

******  —  A Masterpiece Acoustic Live Act!

By preference, actually I was not really into the kind of acoustic or unplugged things. But, this album changed everything for me even at first spin. Having been familiar with Pain of Salvation after enjoying Perfect Elements Part 1, this album forced me to try enjoying the acoustic music. It blew me and I kept playing it over and over at my CD player as well as in my car. There are two things that has made me falling in love with this album even until now after couple of months owning it. First, the creativeness of the band that has composed this acoustic music wonderfully. Second, the virtuosity of the musicians in performing all tracks flawlessly. Well, I really admire the musicianship of PoS, especially on acoustic guitar, piano / keyboards and powerful vocal. Top notch! I know myself that I have never endured listening to acoustic music. But with this album I even repeated.
   

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OPETH “Blackwater Park” (2001)

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

In summary, this is an excellent album with tight composition, exploring various sounds that can be produced from musical instruments, frequent tempo changes which sometime occur abruptly. The style can be categorized under progressive metal. However, this is not the kind that might appeal directly to those who like Dream Theater, Threshold, Symphony X, Kamelot or Rhapsody. For those who hate growling vocal, I suggest that you change your perception from vocal’s role to deliver message with lyrical part with vocal as musical instruments. This might help. I would say, this album might favour death metal fans immediately.

 

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Giant on the Box

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

Giant_on_a_box Lagi2, gw nggeblak abiszz sama penampilan jawara2 prog ini pada saat masih muda. Gila abisz deh shownya! Yang menarik pertama bagi gw adalah si drummernya John Weathers yang tampil sangat energik dan atraktif. Pukulan2 nya maha dahsyat menawan. Terus si Kerry Minear tuh jago banget main kibornya. Derek Shulman suaranya bagus dan nyantai nyanyinya. Ray Shulman selain main bass juga jago main violin. Pokoknya gw kagum abisz dah sama mereka ini. Gw bakal review ntar kalo udah siap dan katam di www.progarchives.com atau mungkin di www.dprp.net. Lihat aja nanti. Keren nih DVD and CD!

 

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