DEADWING

What a major let down. I had started to smell something was not right with In Absentia, but this album simply stinks... or worse, it doesn't have a smell or taste at all, it doesn't provoke the slightest feeling, except for frustration for hearing a talented band doing something like this. I absolutely understand they wanted to evolve as a band, but to evolve means to turn into something better, not to pass from the openness of psychodelia to the limitations of metal. Even if it was a fine prog metal album I'd understand, but it simply don't deliver in the whole playtime. They did great as a psychodelic band, or even in the more melodic stuff on Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun, but to play metal it's required a size of balls it seems they don't have.