ORCHID

The beauty of hindsight is in credible. My absolute favourite band at the earliest stage. It's hard to imagine that Mike had so much potential brewing in him because this album really is nothing special to me and leans way too closely to the style of Black Metal than I really like. I guess this shows to pay attention to bands when they are starting out because if it wasn't for Still Life maybe none of us would know the band and maybe we would never have heard such gold as Ghost Reveries and Water Shed. I even like their new prog direction with Heritage, its actually stunning.

While there was promise in the long songs and interesting compositions, there was a lot of room to grow for these Swedish boys and boy did they. Confusingly "Under The Weaping Moon" is still a great track to me even though its a bit black metally. Only can give this 1 2 stars unfortunately.