THE PROGRAM

Echo Rhythm

Heavy Prog

2.67 | 2 ratings

From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website

The Program is the debut studio album by US instrumental Prog metal band Echo Rhythm, the brainchild of musicians Greg Rosenblit (keyboards and programming) and Josh Adams (bass)

The album opens with the 12 plus minutes track "100 Years" with heavy and atmospheric catchy guitar riffing and some arpeggio-like electric licks that create kind of a hypnotic ambience. Tasty piano, fat bass lines and tight drumming round up the sound. Cool track, not much happening here but quite enjoyable. After that opening track, nothing really changes much, maybe the bass tone (Waters, Duda type of sound) or the way the guitars approach their soloing while they often exchange the leading role with the keyboards (mostly classic piano sounding). At some spots the riffing becomes heavier, and the drumming sounds a bit more human, however it doesn't take the listener anywhere new, by this point I'm not sure if its intentional or just lack of creativity, I'll shoot for the first option. By the time the "Warrior Mountain" arrives I'm officially bored. There's evident quality in the way the album is arranged and produced, but it sounds more like one unfinished track being played over and over with different (and not so quite) endings. is the closer track which finally brings an alternate look and feel to the musical journey, melodic guitar licks are back with some operatic sounding keys that take over the last minute or so, alongside the final voices, and so it fades.

At first listen the album did catch my attention; I instantly knew it was kind of shallow but wanted to give it a second (and even third) chance. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything underneath those superficial musical layers.

The ideas might be there as well as the melodies, but for an all-instrumental album I find its proposal a little flat and dull. My score for this album is 2.5/5 but unfortunately we don't have .5 options here and 3 stars would be a little high, at least for my appreciation.

ElChanclas | 2/5 | 2022-6-5

MEMBERS LOGIN ZONE

As a registered member (register here if not), you can post rating/reviews (& edit later), comments reviews and submit new albums.

You are not logged, please complete authentication before continuing (use forum credentials).

Share this ECHO RHYTHM review

Social review comments () BETA

Review related links

Send comments to ElChanclas
Report this review (#2758553)
Buy ECHO RHYTHM music online with PA partners
Show all ECHO RHYTHM MP3/Stream
Go to ECHO RHYTHM page for videos, full discography with ratings, reviews and much more
Go to The Program page for more details, where to buy and ratings/reviews
Search the Forum for ECHO RHYTHM related discussions