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I hate it when I have to dish out some dirt on a band’s
obvious effort. Time Grid’s debut album “Life” is an album that I feel I must
review, but only because it is terrible. Yes, I said terrible. Let me explain
why. “The most ambitious, epic and thrilling experience in European
prog!” These are the words that the band uses to describe their music, and it is
laughable at best. This album might be the most unoriginal effort I’ve heard in
a long time. This band is nothing more than a rip-off of Circus Maximus. Now,
I’m not a huge fan of CM, but I respect their work. Time Grid, however, with
their obvious influences from Dream Theater and Pain of Salvation, end up
sounding just like CM. Actually, they sound like them in all the bad ways, but
none of the good ones. There is so much
wrong with the music itself, even pushing the unoriginality aside for now. The
mix is horrible,
and the guitars overshadow everything else. I have respect for the interesting
drums; but, in all honesty, you can barely hear them as the overly shrill and
downright irritating guitars burst your eardrums even on the lowest volume
settings. I also find the vox to be as annoying as they come. The male and
female vocals are heavily stacked to the male side, but the female vocals are
far, far better. I even enjoyed them. The male singer, however, is not ready to
sing at this caliber. That’s all I will say about that. Lastly, the song
structures are chaotic and simply boring because of it. It’s as if they wrote
some songs and then tried to throw in some tempo and time signature changes so
they could call themselves prog metal.
Honestly, I had high hopes for this album
based on my overall impression of the artwork and also based on another review I
saw, but it is disappointing on every level.
The band needs to think seriously about making some
major changes if they want to impress anyone outside a few desperate Circus
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