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BAND | : | FRAMESHIFT (D/US) | |
| TITLE | : | AN ABSENCE OF EMPATHY | ||
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Human grain 02. Just one more 03. Miseducation 04. I killed you 05. This is gonna hurt 06. Push the button 07. In an empty room 08. Outcast 09. Blade 10. How long can I resist 11. When I look into my eyes 12. What kind of animal |
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| LABEL DISTRIBUTION |
: Progrock records : Bertus Distribution |
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| In 2003 the German musician Henning Pauly
made his debut with Frameshift through the
delicious progalbum ‘Unweaving The Rainbow’,
although Henning was already known through his
other band called Chain. And now there’s the
second Frameshift-album, again prog but with more
hardrock and metal in it. First of all because of Henning
himself, who wanted to make a more heavier, but still
prog-record and secondly through the vocals from nobody
else then ex-Skid Row vocalist Sebastain Bach.
When I heard the first two songs. I had a bad feeling
that this album would not be what I had expected, just
because with a prog-album you don’t expect a
hardrock-vocalist to sing on it, although the
musical-arrangements are delicious prog. But then came
the song "Miseducation", which is a real
heavy prog-song on which Sebastian rough vocals
totally come to their right and on which he proves that Hennings’
choice to ask him for the vocal duties on this new album
where not so strange after all (imagine, his first choice
was Devin Townsend, but he was too busy at that
particular moment). On this song you can hear a lot of
strange electric effects which you’ll hear on other
songs as well, it just makes it all more exciting,
together with the terrific guitarsound and the great
synth solos. Sometimes the harmonies are a bit complex,
but nowhere it goes over the top, just because it has the
right dose of melody and on the right moment the exact
tempo-changes. Lyrically this is sort of conceptalbum
again, but now build around the nature of violence in
humans. Folks that only like progmetal with clean vocals
will be a bit disappointed I guess, but I can’t say
anything else then that this is a decent album, suitable
for every progfan, just try it out, give it a chance! URL: www.frameshift2.com |
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