SECOND LIFE SYNDROME

What a fantastic album! Perfect!! Flawless victory!!! Riverside at their best!!!! It's truly one of the best prog metal albums I've heard this year (and I've just finished writing a review for Riverside's latest release REM - also remarkable!). In my humle opinion (and as I see not only mine. Just browse today's forum topics about this band and you'll see) Riverside is one of the new progressive bands that is influenced (which band is not inluenced at all...?) not by classic well-known band like King Crimson, Genesis or Marillion, but by modern heroes: Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Tool and even maybe a liitle bit by Opeth.

MAIN BODY:

"After" will stay as a magnificent prog track forever and you'll be tempted to listen to it ten years after you read this review. It's an amazin track with a really unique sound and the undercurrent frightens and enlightens, so to speak... "Volte Face" - power, brutality, rage, speed. "Conceiving You" is a mellow hit :-) "Second Life Syndrome" - an astounding and outstanding massive track that is divided into three parts each of them having its different feeling and emotions. THE BEST TRACK on this CD and one of the best (if not the best really) of 2005. The track "Artificial Smile" - rage and venom!!! "I Turned You Down" - a slower one. "Reality Dream III" - is it dream or reality?? PERFECT. "Dance With The Shadow" - perfect again. "Before" - prepare yourself... 5 stars!

COCLUSION: (Short, because ther's no need for more to say)

Yes, yes, yes. This album deserves 5 stars! NO DOUBTS about it!!!

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