ONE HOUR BY THE CONCRETE LAKE

I'm a bit, I don't know, bewildered I guess it's the word, with this album. The first Pain Of Salvation album, Entropia (1997), was indeed rough, but it's compositions were full and ready to go and promissed a bright future for them (which they did have). With One Hour by the Concrete Lake (1998) it seems the band didn't have time to mature their ideas and it shows on almost every track. On top of that the production sounds really amateur. On their first album producer was Midnight Sun's Anders Theander, this time the band produced it themselves and it shows.

One Hour by the Concrete Lake (1998) feels like a demo, and if a new listener would start with this band they would go away, right away. One Hour by the Concrete Lake (1998) doesn't portray at all what the band would carry on to be during their next period (2000-2007).

I would avoid this one if you're not a really big fan of the Swedes.