RESISTANCE

It might seem I'm a hater of IQ... 😂 not true, I've enjoyed their albums (at least some of their songs). But again, this album hasn't blown my mind. Resistance, 2019 album of the year on Progarchives... Well... I have to say that there's a huge difference between their first records, they sound a lot better, but so metal-ish this album... I didn't expect that.

2 CDs... Ok that's not always great. CD1 starts really boring with a bad choice for a starting song, there's nothing to say there, just a regular heavy song without anything special, any changes, monotonous. Then it becomes better but nothing that I would say is great.

The last 3 songs of CD1 are the best for me, really great arrangements and a change of style. The rest of the album it's the same vibe all the time (kind of a metal thing, trying to be spooky post-apocalyptic like the artwork, idk how to call it haha). But these three songs are really fresh in comparison.

CD2 seems to be better... Something is wrong, it should be CD1 haha. Bad choice of songs imo. However, I enjoyed the first 15 min epic more than the epics of CD2. I don't understand how people say it's soooo great. It's good, but they have better records.