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│ METAL CLASSICS ARCHIVE │
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│ + Redemption - The Origins Of Ruin + │
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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.May-09-2015 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Metal Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........2007 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......anthem Songs........09 ║ │
│║ Covers.......Yes Url... www.redemptionweb.com ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Redemption Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : The Origins Of Ruin Label : SPV ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ Well, I guess that's not saying much, ║ │
│║ considering most anything would have been a step ║ │
│║ up from the huge musical mess that was The ║ │
│║ Fullness of Time, but Redemption did take a ║ │
│║ notable step back towards what made their debut ║ │
│║ good and away from what made their sophomore ║ │
│║ album awful with this release. The songwriting ║ │
│║ is better and Ray Alder no longer sounds like a ║ │
│║ rejected pop vocalist - while it isn't back to ║ │
│║ the level of their debut album, The Origins of ║ │
│║ Ruin has all the makings of an enjoyable ║ │
│║ progressive metal album, while discarding most ║ │
│║ (but not all) of the glaring problems that ║ │
│║ smothered their previous release. ║ │
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│║ The music here is stylistically not that ║ │
│║ different from The Fullness of Time, but it's a ║ │
│║ hell of a lot better written and much more ║ │
│║ aggressive. Modern prog metal riffs reminiscent ║ │
│║ mainly of Dream Theater swarm over atmospheric ║ │
│║ keyboards, occasionally wandering towards thrash ║ │
│║ metal or power metal, interspersed with ║ │
│║ instrumental sections showcasing the band's ║ │
│║ technical prowess. Odd time-signatures abound, ║ │
│║ along with atypical song structures and all the ║ │
│║ other trappings of your average modern prog ║ │
│║ metal band. ║ │
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│║ Ray Alder, who is one of the main reasons The ║ │
│║ Fullness of Time fell so utterly flat, sounds ║ │
│║ notably improved here - he's still nowhere near ║ │
│║ as good as Rick Mythiasin, but his vocals are at ║ │
│║ least not immediately offputting as they were ║ │
│║ before. He still struggles with some sappy vocal ║ │
│║ lines but overall gives a much more mature and ║ │
│║ interesting performance, even showing some ║ │
│║ reasonable versatility on some of the more ║ │
│║ aggressive tracks - The Death of Faith and ║ │
│║ Reason sees some almost venomous lines during ║ │
│║ the verses, something I'd never expect out of ║ │
│║ him. ║ │
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│║ Additional improvements over the preceding album ║ │
│║ include stronger riff work, more impressive and ║ │
│║ concise instrumental sections, and the lack of ║ │
│║ anything overwhelmingly saccharine - both the ║ │
│║ epics here are pulled off much more tastefully ║ │
│║ than Sapphire and The Fullness of Time. ║ │
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│║ This album isn't without a fair share of flaws, ║ │
│║ however. While vastly improved over its ║ │
│║ predecessor, it still struggles with overtly ║ │
│║ sappy vocal lines and melodies, especially in ║ │
│║ some of the choruses and in multiple parts of ║ │
│║ the album's first epic, Memory. The album also ║ │
│║ suffers from some problems with variety - much ║ │
│║ of the second half seems to meld together, with ║ │
│║ little if anything to distinguish the ║ │
│║ compositions from each other. ║ │
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│║ Ultimately, though, Redemption just seems to ║ │
│║ lack a bit of inspiration - they have all the ║ │
│║ elements required to make a very good prog metal ║ │
│║ album, but they're not really combined in a way ║ │
│║ which is truly effective. It's a band I feel ║ │
│║ like I want to like, given its lineup, and ║ │
│║ should like, given its style, but that ║ │
│║ ultimately doesn't quite live up to the ║ │
│║ expectation. Thus, while there's not too much ║ │
│║ that's horribly *wrong* with The Origins of ║ │
│║ Ruin, there just isn't enough that's really ║ │
│║ *right* about it, either - it sits there, ║ │
│║ showcasing a number of the standard genre ║ │
│║ tropes, all executed well but not brought ║ │
│║ together in a particularly inspired manner. When ║ │
│║ the band gets it right, as it does in parts of ║ │
│║ the ending epic, Fall on You, and the first ║ │
│║ track, The Suffocating Silence, the result is ║ │
│║ quite good, but as it is there's nothing to ║ │
│║ really make The Origins of Ruin stick with the ║ │
│║ listener. ║ │
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│║ So, if you're looking for solid, if not ║ │
│║ particularly memorable prog metal album you ║ │
│║ could probably do a lot worse than this - it's a ║ │
│║ definitively B-grade album, and by virtue of ║ │
│║ that alone, at least, it leaves its predecessor ║ │
│║ far behind in the dust. ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - the suffocating silence [06:37] │
│ 02 - bleed me dry [06:55] │
│ 03 - the death of faith and reason [04:52] │
│ 04 - memory [09:31] │
│ 05 - the origins of ruin [02:47] │
│ 06 - man of glass [05:05] │
│ 07 - blind my eyes [05:56] │
│ 08 - used to be [06:09] │
│ 09 - fall on you [09:24] │
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│ Total Length : [57:16 minn │
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│ ║ Greetings To: ║ │
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│ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │
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