THE PARALLAX II - FUTURE SEQUENCE

I decided that my first review on this site would be for my favorite progressive metal album since Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt. II, an album that I will probably review very soon.

I must say that this album requires quite an extravagant taste. It's not necessarily too melodic or light to be considered progressive rock, or too smashing and brutal to be considered Death or Black Metal. It's in a point in between, combing properties and characteristics of these genres instead. And I must say the last time I saw a band manage such perfect balance, it was with Opeth's Ghost Reveries.

This album's main technique is to saturate you with thousands of time signatures and technical passages before you can even process them. This can be tedious for those who don't enjoy musicians showing off, but for those that do, it's heaven on earth. Between The Buried And Me's capability of merging these complex sections that stay for most of the album with growls and clean vocals is also something worth respecting, so big props to Tommy Rogers. Musicality is truly on point and at certain times, close to unmatched, with all five musicians delivering their notes with perfect synchrony in a truly delightful way.

There's five main juggernauts that pretty much sum up what this album's all about: Lay Your Ghosts To Rest, Extremophile Elite, Telos, Melting City and Silent Flight Parliament There's three minor tracks that work as smaller juggernauts, they still pack a punch: Astral Body, The Black Box and Bloom There's two SFX interludes that work as a break from the juggernauts: Autumn and Parallax Finally, the opener and the closer, the latter one being a reprise, work together as an amazing way to tie-up things together.

However, with all honesty, I recommend that your first impression to this monster of a work is through a full listen. Most Between The Buried And Me albums work that way, in fact. The flow present between tracks is truly admirable.

I easily give this album a five star rating. I truly have always referred to it as a masterpiece.

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