SCARSICK

Basically I think the album is different. Many people didn't got the sarcasm of it, and some aren't so open minded to handle all the nuances (and there are a lot) of the album. As every PoS album, you have to learn de concept of the songs to learn it right. This album is no exception. A lot of styles mixed together, as I've never heard before. People maybe aren't loving this album because of it, or the higher expectations they built around PoS. It's impossible to release just masterpieces, no band ever done this, and no band ever will. That's a good album, with good things and bad things.

Let's do a track review:

Scarsick: 5/10 - This track is maybe the weakest of the album, it's uninsteresting, non- melodic, the riffs are great, at least.

Spitfall: 8,5/10 - This one is the "rap" track. Well, I really don't understanding people hating this song, for me this song sounds like Diffidentia (from BE), with a little more rap. But the chorus is one of the best PoS melodies IMHO, the ending is awesome, the guitar (with a kind of filtron and duets) line is awesome too. It has a great heavy punch.

Cribcaged: 8,5/10 - A beautiful song, with anger inside. Nice touch, very BE-ish at first, very Floyd-ish too. But it gets not so interesting after listening to much. After 5 or so listenings it became normal, that's why 8,5.

America: 9/10 - This song is amazing. It remainds me a lot of TPE and RL (in the composition style side), those "dissonant" parts, mixed with a happy chorus, very funny/sarcastic. The riffs are pretty good and so is the entire song. At the same time it sounds very non-PoS (yeah, that's strange). Maybe the best one.

Disco Queen: 8,5/10 - That's one of the funniest song I've ever heard (from a serious band, obviously)! It has some great lines, the guitar work is cool, as is the bass work. The drum roll at the end of the first theme worth the entire song, it fits really really well with the theme. It's funny, but this song looses in itself. It seems that it got strange in some parts, just to fit the lyrics (I feel that on the end of Nihil Morari from BE). That's a must hear track IMO. Funny and dark at the same time.

Kingdom Of Loss: 8,5/10 - It's beginning sounds like Elton John's "Come Down In Time". Despite this, the song is beautiful, has one of the most "I can't take this melody of my head" of the album. It sounds very TPE-ish IMHO. The guitar solo should have more gain (I mean, distortion, punch) IMO; it explodes after the solo, I think it should explodes with the solo (the solo is beautiful BTW). Very powerfull song. Maybe it deserves a 9.

Mrs. Modern Mother Mary: 5/10 - This song is weak IMO. Nothing special and very repetitive, sounds very Queensrÿche-ish. In the middle there's a TPE melody, I don't know why.

Idiocracy: 8,5/10 - Another powerfulll song. Great guitar work at the beginning, as the keyboards. It sounds very PoS. The vocals are kinda strange, sounds like the "thing" (it seems a strange human) of the album's cover is singing. The pre-chorus/chorus is very TPE-ish IMO too. Very beautiful. Then we have that classic "dissonant" chord and some cool "metal" screams. After 5 minutes the song explodes in powerfull melodies. As always, Daniel's singing is awesome.

Flame To The Moth: 9/10 - A great track. At the beginning we have that "filtron" guitar (never heard it before on a PoS album, and it's in almost every track of this album). This song is heavy, with some awesome screams, and some kinda nu metal riffs. The vocals are great, some great vocal lines, very memorable. I think that every PoS fan loves this track. Maybe the best. Very powerfull.

Enter Rain: 6/10 - A strange track. Not a good way to end an album IMO. Very dark and repetitive. Drums are under overdrive, giving that sound. The first vocals are melodic, but the chorus is not so melodic (so do the lyrics "Enter rain, Enter rain, Enter raaaain"), sounding not so good IMO. The song is too big for what it has to offer IMO. As in the entire album, the parts that "explodes" (at 6:24) are the best of the track.

That's it. Some excellent and some good, but non-essential stuff.

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