SHRINE OF NEW GENERATION SLAVES

Not bad album, but not so progressive or metal as it should be if genre defined as prog metal. Nice melodies, but nothing groundbreaking or memorable. Today prog rock going to 70-s and i don't like this tendency. This is nice rock music with some 70-s influences (Deep Purple!), but not masterpiece. I liked they previous work, they were more innovative than "Shrine Of New Generation Slaves". This album can't stand among such great works as "Images and Words" because this music is not progressive metal - it is nice neo-prog with some heavy-prog, maybe the best over the past few years, but in my opinion Riverside didn't show nothing new here. Sad, but true