TEN — Babylon (review)

TEN — Babylon album cover Album · 2000 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Stephen
Ten entered the millenium with a futuristic concept album regarding a computer freak and his tragic love story. It's unusual for non-progressive band like this to create a unique lyrical approach even though they still retained the traditional melodic rock style that made them famous in the first place. There are couples of heavy songs, in fact those are even heavier than it used to be, such as 'Barricade' and 'Thunder In Heaven'. The latter track felt very robotic with a long instrumental intro, sounds promising but in the end, it ended up being an average tune that you might soon forgot.

My complain here is that they put too many slower songs instead of balancing it with some real hard rock tunes but I can't deny the quality of 'Give In This Time' or 'Silent Rain', both are amazing ballads with majestic vocal delivery by Gary Hughes. I just expect they can slip in some bombastic arrangement in the veins of 'Black Hearted Woman', that one is a monster track, or at least like the opening track, 'The Stranger', not ultra-fast in tempo but the riffs are spectacular.

The production is awesome and despite the disastrous filler, 'The Heat' or the passable 'Timeless', this isn't a bad album at all. A grower maybe, even though not an essential release of their career, I found 'Babylon' to be an interesting release by the band and glad to have it in my collection.
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