MEKANÏK DESTRUKTÏW KOMMANDÖH

This album is almost perfect. Almost. There's one slight inconvenience on this album that destroys the ebb and flow of the whole thing and that's it's random fade out/pause in the middle of the album. Now I fully understand that that's because of side 2 but still. It doesn't change the fact that the change is abrupt and annoying.

Everything else about this album I love. Everything else about this album I love. Everything else about this album... I love. It's... it's... weird! I love it. Yeah, yeah, you try to explaining it.

It's driving, it's vocal, it makes perfect sense. Yet it seems completely irrational. The whole made up language just makes it even more...it. Talk about power.

This is a particularly dark album, you can hear the desperation in the voices including the voices of the instruments. It's fanatical. It's tribal and yet it's sophisticated. It transcends any conceptions of what progressive rock is to me. It's completely different from what I've heard before and it baffles me.

Before, when I wasn't familiar with it, I was just entranced. I couldn't focus on anything else while this was on. Now that I am familiar with it... I catch myself singing to my favorite parts finding out what certain passages mean to find out that I didn't really need to find out what the lyrics meant to understand the what was taking place. The lyrics provide the details but that's not really the point of this. It's not about those details that a lot of people find important to albums.

Despite it's one shortcoming, I can't help but give this work a full 5 stars for even though it has that one little tear it defines "Prog Masterpiece". And even because it has that shortcoming, this album is still Essential.