Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Riverside - Out of Myself (2003)

 

The debut album from this band from Poland.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

A guest added trombone.

Gosh, this is one of the bands who introduced me to progressive rock about twenty years ago. I reviewed their second album for ProgArchives fifteen years ago.... and then almost forgot about the band in this jungle of exciting prog, fusion and metal albums I have encountered in the last two decades. 

I am now going to review the remaining seven albums in this blog during the next couple of months.

Out Of Myself is an almost one hour long album which offers up a lot of variety. From Marillion like art-rock via Porcupine Tree like modern prog metal to some djent and more extreme metal.

The music is melodic, muscular and elegant. The music is full of contrasts... from extreme metal to almost pastoral at times. This makes for an engaging, very interesting listening experience. 

The vocals is great and the band does a good job here.

This is a good album and an almost sensational debut album from one of the biggest and most respected bands in the scene.

3 points 

 

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