... TOT LICHT

I personally prefer Discus first album compared to Tot Licht. Yes it took me several listens in attempt to enjoy our own country front-runner prog band. The musicanship is of course top-notch, as Iwan Hasan ability to shred and play guitar - switching from metal riff to jazzy melodic tunes. The opening track - System Manipulation is what kills my appetite for this album, and yes I should not judge the whole album on 1 song, but this track is just a complete waste of talents. The opening jazzy section - is still ok - but the introduction of out-of-placed metal riff with growling vocals, and with poor lyric, just destroy everything. I'm sorry - this section just put me off. Lyric like "I'm gonna kick your a...." is just...out of place - imho. The band certainly played something quite original by mixing multiple elements of prog music, from jazzy canterbury, to progmet and symph-rock, but the result fails to provide a single explanation of what kind of music is played. It does come across as to mix everything for the sake of being prog. Discus is promising band - and i liked their first album, and will continue to buy their 3rd album, but the second album - Tot Licht is not going to be played regularly in my cd player. Rizal