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PRODIGAL SON |
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| Average Rating: 8.00 |
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Diverse and ground-breaking
by goatherd "goatherd" Berkeley, CA United States
Reviewed on March 19th, 2004
This album is a strange mix of ground-breaking material that still sounds innovative and fresh over 10 years after its release, along with some fairly dated moments that place it firmly back in the days when death metal was still gaining momentum. There are some pretty thrashy parts here and there. With that said, though, this is an extremely unique and often amazing album. It incorporates some diverse elements (sitar, for instance) and uses them in really original ways, mixing them intermittently with brutal metal. In this way it reminds me of Theory in Practice's first album. Although this band never received much attention, I think it quietly influenced a lot of bands. It's weird for the sake of being weird, I guess, but this approach often pushes metal forward. In terms of originality and willingness to experiment, I would put this in the same league as great technical death bands like Atheist, although it is not quite as technical. Unfortuately, as seems to be the case for oddball music of this sort, this band is almost unknown (my CD languished at my local used CD store for over 3 years, before I bought it on a whim, and I live in a big city). My only complaint is that I would have liked more of the weird acoustic/ethnic moments.
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