The debut album from this band from Italy.
The band was a quintet with a line-up of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, synths, fx and vocals.
This band released two albums before they went quiet and probably split up as nothing has been heard of them this decade. I will post a review of their second album in some days time.
Memories Have No Name clocks in at fifty minutes.
The music here is a blend of progressive metal and heavy prog.
The two references here are Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree.
The album starts out as a progressive metal album before it mellows out a lot and become much more a heavy prog album.
The music is muscular, epic, symphonic and a bit post-rock too.
The musicians do a good job. The vocals are good too.
Not everything here is good. There is some good stuff here and some decent stuff here. On balance, this is an acceptable debut album. Unfortunate for the band, this scene was and still is overcrowded and I suspect this album drowned in the flood of similar sounding albums that year.
2.5 points
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