3 - The End Is Begun
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Artist: 3Composer: 3 (Three)
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Music Label: Metal Blade
Soundtracks:
- The Word Is Born Of Flame
- The End Is Begun
- Battle Cry
- All That Remains
- My Divided Falling
- Serpents In Disguise
- Been To The Future
- Bleeding Me Home
- Live Entertainment
- Diamond In The Crush
- Shadow Play
- These Iron Bones
- The Last Day
Free Music Notes for The End Is Begun
Free Music Review: a surprise package
Hit: 4 Stars
I stumbled upon 3 when I was checking out the bands that were playing for Prog Nation '08. To be touring with Opeth and BTBAM, one would expect 3 to have quite a heavy sound with heavy riffs and the like. To my surprise, 3 turned out to be exceptionally clean but still refreshing and exciting. It is living proof that technicality does not have to come accompanied with 10,000 beats/minute tracks and "dirrrrty" riffs.
The album opener "The World is Born of Flames" starts with a spacy Eric Clapton-esque acoustic guitar picking before getting mildly heavier, building up to "The End Is Begun" which features the heavier aspects of prog music, with plenty of double bass pedaling, coupled with an awesome addictive bass line. Grimsland really shows no mercy on this track and is simply candy to the ears. This is even more audible in "Battle Cry".
Unfortunately the album flattens out after "Battle Cry" and becomes almost flat by the time "Live Entertainment" starts playing. Here, it would not have been impossible to mistake this band for a regular indie-sounding pop band like Cobra Starship.
I must admit however, that there were still quite a number of exciting riffs towards the end of the cd that was yet another display of Grimsland's genius. The album wraps itself up with guitar showpiece "These Iron Boots", which is bound to find itself in some guitar hero/ rock star-like console game.
Lyrically, there is little to differentiate 3 from other prog bands- their lyrics were a piece of art, and will appeal a good deal to people who actually bother to process and digest the lyrics being fed to them.
The End is Begun is definitely worth a listen if you are into prog. 3 also the album accessible with tracks such as "Live Entertainment" and "Diamond in the Rush" definitely making it to mainstream radio. People who have not checked out prog music but are reading this review for some strange reason will also find this a much easier listen when you compare it to other prog bands such as Opeth.
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