1 out of 5 from a Finnish webzine!
http://www.noise.fi/levyarvostelut/?id=8458
Thanks to Teemu for the translation below:
I was lied to. Someone told me this should be something like Evanescence. Screw that, this is progressive metal with a female voice. Or should I say alternative-math-jazz-black-power-prog-metal to be exact.
To be clear, I do like progressive stuff. Ive actuoally given full five stars to prog albums and I love stuff like Opeth, but this is just too much for me. Through the whole album my mind kept saying NO because personally I got nothing good out of it.
What bothers me the most are those damn dun-dudu-dun-dun-dudun-dun one-note-riffs played from some damn drop-K tune. Ok, they might work with something like Evanescence or Max Cavalera, but how many Evanescence or Sepultura songs last over 6 minutes? Not Many. But did I mention that To-Meras songs average length is more than 8 minutes? Those damn riffs come out of my ears on every single track.
At first Inside the Hourglass sounded like it would be the one track that makes some sense, after all it has a chorus and all, but goddamn. No. And those guitar solos? Theyre really something that never sholud be even recorded! No feeling, just playing the weirdest possile stuff as fast as possible. And again, accompanied with that same dun-du-dudu-du riff. Argh!
And finally, who can really take it that the drummer, guitarist and synths are all playing a different song at the same time. Please kill me already!
