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THE FORBIDDEN CITYTwinspiritsProgressive Metal3.30 | 13 ratings |
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Twinspirits , this italian prog metal band with their second album to date, release at Lion
music last year - 2009 named The forbidden city. This album must be one of the
deseppointed releases from 2009 from my collection. I was expecting something better, and
instead I get an usual , almost boring power metal album with keybords added here ad there.
If the first album was a very good one, showing a good debute with intristing ideas, this
second offer is almost an mediocre album. The arrangements, the guitar solos, everything is
good but damn usual, I heared this version hundred times before on hundred bands. A new
member arrived on this album, again a non italian singer, I guess the main man of the band
Liverani has a special atraction to forign vocalists, after all is his choice, this new voice of
Goran Nystrom is ok, but too unpolished , and very predictable arrangements. I don't see him
as the best vocalist from the band, I prefer the former one, who was more versatile and has a
better range for Twinspirits music. Anyway if the voice is ok in places, some great parts here
and there,are boring to death and only the instrumental passages save the album to be a total
average one. Teh arrangements are ok, but to predictable and too usual if not unintristing
verall. The sound is cristal clear, this is a good thing of course,, but doesn't save the album to
became only one or two spining releases from my collectiuon from 2009. The best pieces, are
the opening track, The Forbidden City , nearly 11 min, from it sox are totaly unintristing, but the
first 3 min of the piece is very good, the instrumental one BTR, absolutly the best piece from
here, showing that they still mean bussines in this prog metal field, not enough for me from
the whole album, but very strong instrumental arrangements, and I think that all, the rest are
from ok to average, not necesarly bad but with lack of choerence in song writting and with no
originaluty at all, not even in keybords section and guitr where Liverani always shines on his
every project involved, but not here. So, overall I will give 2.5 rounded to 3, I rounded up
becaus e I like the band, and the musicians of Twinspirit, each one has great skills but this
this time they didn't used properly like on their first album. A good album overall in the end, 3
stars but with indulgence. Sad but if the next album will sound like this Forbidden city , I tell you
I will forget about this band for good, and I'm not saying only to fill the box, I'm damn irritaited by
this forgetable album by one of the best bands from young generation in prog metal.
b_olariu |
3/5 |
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