Metal with melodic hooks, chunky riffs, and dramatic vocals that can run the gamut between Savatage and Dio. Operatic moments. Bits of cheese, sometimes cringable, but not always. Heavy but not thrash or death or black. Perhaps imagine Iron Maiden at 31 rpms. Sensible breakdowns which are somewhat unpredictable. A few bridges are extraneous and drab. Nice European tone at times. This recording sounds so much better than past live performances, and was engineered well. "Fat Man from China" is consciously dogmatic, maybe to its detriment. "Legal Murder" has nice faux-blastbeats. Classic metal dressed up for the modern metal revival.
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Art for the Ears 2001Reviewed by Marco PovervestA keyboard tone starts off the first song on this heavy metal album. The intro is enhanced greatly with the addition of keyboards. It creates an atmosphere of darkness and gloom. Unfortunately they play a minor role on the rest of the song and the rest of the album. However, this does not mean that the album's a disappointment. On the contrary, here we have a very neat piece of music. Biogenesis'…Similar sounding releases
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