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Comment by elpy 2 years ago
Second Life Syndrome 2005 by Riverside This is a wonderfully unified and well balanced album, always maintaining it's feel. Emotional variations and dynamics in both performance and compositions make this album tough to beat. It is essential music for almost any prog lover. Comment by ElectroVolta 3 years ago
Second Life Syndrome 2005 by Riverside A very fun, emotional floydian-esque release with tasteful guitars and keyboards, not very metal. Consistenly great the whole way though, although nothing really masterful, just consitently very good songs. Also, it doesn't try anything new for the prog genre, instead it takes Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, and Pain of Salvation and mixes them together into something not derivative but defenitely heavly influeced. A great record, and one of the best from 2005.
Out of Myself 2004 by Riverside This Polish Prog-Metal act really put a nice album together with Out of Myself. I first purchased Second Life Syndrome due to the high ratings that it was given on this site. I enjoyed that album immensely; and thus, went ahead and purchased their first complete album which I am now evaluating. The Same River Great first song to the album. This is a much stronger opening track than what you will find on Second Life Syndrome ("After") as it incorporates all sorts of progressive elements over the course of its 12 minute length. While some may find it a bit dark and brooding, I find this to be a stunning song and the best on the whole album, in my opinion. It is mostly instrumental with vocals not beginning until a good five minutes into the song. Out of Myself The title track picks up where The Same River left off by delivering another outstanding arrangement, ... -> show full review Rating by Soul Dreamer
Voices in my Head 2005, EP by Riverside This is not metal. It's very accoustic. Also, this EP is clearly less quality than the studio albums "Out of Myself" and "Second Life Syndrome". Having said that, there's still a lot of quality on this album. |