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Further Dimension "The Monolith Effect"

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( Brennus Music )

Average customer rating:
4 stars

Total votes: 1

$13.99

UPC: 3426300085665
Cat#: BR8216
Genre: Progressive Metal
Release Date: April 27, 2010

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New Prog For Old Heads.

Further Dimension is a progressive metal band from France featuring members of power metal troupe Inner Visions, sure to please any fans of groups like Dream Theater or Fates Warning, Yet it experiments with different genre, to find it's own sound.

Taking elements from the 2 groups mentioned above, but also from groups like Porcupine Tree and Meshuggah as well, for the most part working in an melodic formula, sometimes they go off into the weirder tangents that make for some interesting moments.

The riffs on here are very good, maintaining a thrash feel within most tracks, hear the opening pair Doomed and Greed. The guitar playing is, naturally, more progressive on longer tracks, like Further Dimension or the 3-part title-tracks, The Monolith Effect I-III. There's even a bit of the band's own take on a very progressive Meshuggah in the middle of the album, with tracks like Stare of The Sunken Eye. The few acoustic moments are much appreciated due to most of the album being metal, the acoustic, and occasionally even jazz, moments can make you appreciate the heavier side that much more. The solos on here are all very good and quite different from each other.

Vocally, what you have here is your standard but not average heavy metal vocalist, good range, semi-operatic that switch sometimes to death metal growls The layering of the large range is really good when harmonies are exhibited in any track, showing a very large and almost "unique" sound

Fans of prog done the old-school way will definitely find this album very enjoyable.
Highly recommended.

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01. Dawn Of Humanity (1:04)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
02. Greed (4:32)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
03. Doomed (3:24)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
04. A Certain Idea Of Human Kind (4:47)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
05. Further Dimension (8:55)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
06. The Evil Power Of Their Souls (5:27)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
07. Stare Of Sunken Eye (3:16)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
08. Is This The World We Created (2:30)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
09. Middle Age (4:44)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
10. The Monolith Effect, Pt.1 (5:14)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
11. The Monolith Effect, Pt.2 (4:27)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
12. The Monolith Effect, Pt.3 (4:02)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
13. On The Way Back To Earth (1:22)	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.