PIKTORS VERWANDLUNGEN

Follow-up that still stands still, firmly showing AD's power, even not as strong as the albums before. Sadly, not only that I am quite allergic to German language (never could have get used to it, apologies to my German friends) and when we "remove" (god bless mp3's) such passages, we get 24 minutes, less than 2/3 of original album's length - 24 minutes of music. Of course, I missed some in these 14 minutes, but what can I do. Knowing only English, these spoken passages would be useless to me anyway.

The music (which I have a bad feeling isn't the most important thing here - narrative probably is), is like a gentle breeze - it doesn't offense, it feels fine, but you barely notice it. There are some highlights namely Der Doppelstern, where the likes of Adonis (yes the one and only) glimpses through a haze of averageness and it raises the stakes a bit, but because of the holes (as Warthur said - jams because of skipping tracks), one third of an album wasted and general a bit above average sound of the album I am forced to state the verdict as 3.