Anubis Gate - A Perfect Forever
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Artist: Anubis GateEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Locomotive Spain
Soundtracks:
- Sanctified
- Kingdom Come
- Future Without Past
- Curfew
- Children of the Pauper King
- Approaching Inner Circle
- Wanton Blades of Lust
- Epitome of Delusion
- Endless Grief
- Perfect Forever: Pt. 1: "Utopia Revisted"/Pt. 2: "A Perfect Forever"
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Free Music Review: Best Album In Years!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album was released in 2005 and I just discovered it by accident. I was searching on the net and heard a track and was instantly shocked that I had missed such an amazing album. I own hundreds of prog/power metal albums and can't comprehend how I missed this one. This release epitomizes all of the qualities that I love: Heavy, mid-paced, technical and progressive, while still maintaining actual songs - in the traditional sense; and most importantly, dark, minor-sounding melodies.
In an era when so many "power metal" bands are trying to be the next neo-Helloween clone, refreshingly, this album contains none of those cliches. There are no monotonous fast double-base-drum, happy, Major, sing-song tunes. The one time they employ such a beat it's accompanied by such brutally heavy and melodic vocals and a very minor-sounding harmonized riff that's so dark and erie it's just oozing with tension...which leads to my next praise: vocalist Torben Askholm.
This guy's voice complements the music perfectly and is very unique. He has a very melodic and brutal style in a way similar to Dio, but without actually sounding like him. Torben has an uncannily unique voice - perhaps it's because of his Danish accent, which is fairly prominent; which I perceive to be a good thing. Unfortunately he has since left the band.
After repeated listens to this album, I'm convinced that the band spent a great deal of time fine-tuning these songs; there are so many brilliant but subtle nuances in the changes, riff variations and most notably, the beautiful guitar harmonies. These guys were not content to just play a riff once or twice and then employ one type of harmony: the intervals keep changing, which always keeps the listener surprised at what comes next.
I'm the type of listener that gets bored easily; and that's why I don't much care for either formulaic pop-power metal or sloppy black/death/thrash metal and unfortunately most of today's prog bands aren't heavy enough. And that's what makes this album so brilliant: they seem to have made a conscious awareness to keep the material very heavy and I like that!
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