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Given the choice of band name, anyone out there wanna guess who this ensemble sounds like? And you’d be right on the money, Advent even beginning life as a full-on Opeth cover band. Which clubs and bars would hire this over Steve Miller or Springsteen tributes, I have no idea. Anyhow, it’s all here in full swing: deliberate song lengths, waves of the brutal and the laconic crashing against each other, evocative lyrics, scads of pretentiousness... er, ambitiousness. It’s not an out-and-out clone, to be sure. In fact, there’s a vestigial jazziness that bodes well for future departures from the Opeth formula; sad that Opeth is now considered a formula, no? Ah, plus ça change. Back to the album in question, it’s fairly well-recorded, especially for a Mexican metal band, a country rarely known for issuing crisp-sounding recordings. Talent abounds in all facets of the creative experience, but, if truth be told, these compositions at times ease just on the wrong side of dullness. Too many pastoral intros and interludes that remind me of the intro to Metallica’s “Hero of the Day” or something from a Live or Counting Crows album. I’m not entirely joking, either. I’ll let ‘em work it out, though, since there’s good stuff here overall.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Whisper |
| 2. Hopeless |
| 3. On Darkness |
| 4. Expecting The Ashes Of Wind |
: 30:00
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