The fourth album from this US band.
Metaphor is a quintet with a lineup of bass, drums, keyboards, guitars and vocals.
The band has returned again to the scene after a more than decade long break. Their debut album was released back in 2000, no less.
This is a band who has been flying well under my radar. This album came as a surprise.
The sub-genre of progressive rock is also one of my favourite ones...... neo-prog !
Metaphor has combined the US and the UK with the Polish neo-prog sound and sub-genres on this album. The music is slightly bombastic. It also have some pop-rock from the British and Polish scene.
A band like Arena pops up in my head when listening to this one hour long album.
The vocals is really good and the other musicians is doing a good job too. There is not many details here to awake my interest. But there are some of them and this album is clearly a neo-prog album.
There are some rather good stuff and some rather decent stuff here. I am not really won over. The band simply lacks some really good songs to make this a good album. An album which may break them out of their obscurity. This is not the album which will break them.
2.5 points
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