Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn

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anyways, about the cd... this cd literally brought tears to my eyes. i had gone for 3 years listening to zeppelin, metallica and acdc and was bored of easy playing of guitar. i looked into satriani and vai, now dont get my wrong they are good, but they were not what i was looking for. luckily i stumbled upon a recommendation for becker. i bought speed metal symphony and was astonished by the speed and melody exacting the cd. concerto and speed metal symphony are truely inspirational songs. its a shame that they had a vocalist interupt most of their songs on that cd. then after the 100th time of listening to that i needed to get perpetual burn, and thats when the tears of amazement dropped. I waited two weeks for the cd and popped it in the cd player, and was introduced to altitudes. I couldnt believe what i was hearing, steady and extremely melodic, then speedy and melodic. it is hard to believe that someone was actually able to add passion into speed. i then had the priveledge to listen to perpetual burn and mabels fatal fable. my jaw was down to my shoulders by then. air, air is the song that brings forth pure emotion. the intro has a strange sound to it, but still good. the guitars being clean you would think would have the occational scratch or twang in the sound, but not with becker. the playing was so smooth and exact, you just crumble as a guitarist inside knowing how much skill that takes. the next three tracks, temple of the absurd, eleven blue egyptians, and dweller in the celler, all have the more heavy sound of the cd. maybe freidman, who is also an amazing guitarist, added a little heavy flavor to it. in eleven blue egyptians there is a marvelous blues progression. it actually had a unique blues style to it, not the same progressions over and over again. dweller in the cellar i would say is the heaviest song, yet it is still melodic, which is almost nerve racking thinking about it. the finisher opus pocus is a favorite. it almost sounds like a metal lullaby at first, then it transforms into a powerful solo progression, then back into the lullaby. the only thing about this song is the chord progression after the lullaby, though i can tolerate to listen to. i thought becker could do better, but its only 11 seconds so it doesnt ruin the song. the rest of the song is emotion and melody, all you need for a good cd.

There was something going around about how becker has lack of tone and cant pick right compared to malmsteen, but that is far from true. the times becker has the scratching sound to this picks just add to the emotion, almost as if the guitar itself was crying. i cant rightfully say hes the best guitarist ever, simply because i havent heard every guitarist in the world, but he is far by the best guitarist ive ever heard. the fact that he has little repetition in his songs (excluding opus pocus) and has such fresh material no one will ever be able to mimic. malmsteen is awesome and truely great, but does have the tendancy to recycle same licks in different songs.

bluntly... perpetual burn isnt repetative, never gets boring, speedy yet melodic, and especially full of emotion... 10 stars out of 5.

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