Year : 2012
Genre : Progressive Djent Metal with a lurking ambient tendency
Label : eOne/Good Fight Music
Origin : United States
Rating : 7.5 / 10 (score evolved from 6.9 on July 29, 2012)
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The Contortionist steps forward with an orthodox progressive metal release, which, for the most part, is the tasteful courting of an image of music that sounds to fall between Dream Theater and Periphery, yet more limited in its scope than their more renowned peers of popular recognition. The disc sounds the most interesting throughout the adventurous technical breaks of instrumental intermissions that it brings to the table, and it is much less capable to offer relevant surprises when witnessed from the angle of Dream Theater song structure administration. A good amount of the affair is dedicated to the abstract (stock) sci-fi feel that is very easy to exploit mercilessly once you are content to rely on a certain set of "safe-sci-fi" chord passages, - TUKK! - and these tame-, in character, almost ambient affectations do no particular beneficial service for the overall experience of this contribution - other than serving out the rudimentary cravings of a lazy taste bud. My intent is not to put you off of the LP, it instead is to inform you that the disc has a combination of quite predictable-, and even pseudo-content - more on that later - and a steady segment of genuine music cultivation, too. Read on to find out more.
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