The debut album from this band from Finland.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of percussion, drums, bass, guitars, chapman stick, cello, keyboards, synths and programming.
Some guests added a female choir.
This band has so far released six albums and they are all up for reviews in this blog in the coming weeks.
..Starting with this, the debut album..
The band's appeal to me was it's inclusion in the neo-prog genre, according to ProgArchives. That is not the case for this seventy-two minutes long album.
Take eclectic prog, King Crimson from their Red era, blend it with some fusion and cinematic prog. That is when you get these seventy-two minutes.
The first one hour is instrumental eclectic prog. The final twelve minutes has a female choir with wordless vocals as in a funeral dirge.
The music is indeed dark and brooding. It even has some hints, menacing zeuhl influences.
The music is pretty sparse on original, interesting details and themes. It sounds too much run-of-a-mill. The cello is cool and ditto for the female choir.
The result is a decent enough album. I hope the five remaining albums are better than this album.
2 points
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