ANNON VIN

Definitelly,this is a masterpiece album and it could be considered a forgotten musical pearl!ANNON VIN managed to release only this album in their short career,but what a damn good album they made!A NEW GATE is heavily influenced by SIEGES EVEN-we can call it ANNON VIN being a copy of the wellknown technical prog metal band-now disbanded unfortunatelly-but,they had a better vocalist than Thomas Herde,the awful vocalist of SIEGES EVEN on the first 2 albums!What we have on this album is a display of technical capacities of this 3 young and ambitious musicians-sometimes we can feel that they try to do a little more of what they are able to do-pushing the technical aspect of this album at an unbelieveble level!The whole audition of the album is a test of will,but ,in the end we can say that this album is almost a masterpiece!Amazing technical chops,twists,change of rhytms-impressive bass lines and an almost scarry versatility of the drummer !The guitarist/vocalist is out of this planet too-he is totally impressive when we think that the guy is in charge vith the vocal duties ,plus the sophisticated guitar work-WOW!!!Hard to say which song is the best one-all the album is a difficult to chew album,and there are necessary many auditions,and to dig deep into it ,to understand the complexity and meanings of such a fantastic album!Very good production,an uninspired cover-but the music is fabulous!4.75 stars for me!