Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Altura - Mercy (1996)

 

The one and only album from this band from USA.

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

This band were a short lived band who released this album on the legendary Magna Carta label. They were a great prog rock and progressive metal label in the 1990s. 

This album is clocking in at fifty minutes and the music here is a blend of progressive metal and heavy prog.

There are a lot of Dream Theater influences and references in their music. There are also some Fates Warning and Rush influences here.

The music is guitars based with some supporting keyboards. The vocals are decent enough. The vocals are also their weakest link too. Their abilities to write good songs are also sorely lacking.

I can understand why this is their only album. The reason being the pretty low quality here.

Nevertheless, this is a decent enough album. 

2 points 

 

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