ORPHANED LAND — Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (review)

ORPHANED LAND — Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven album cover Album · 2004 · Folk Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
siLLy puPPy
Bands like Secret Chiefs 3, System Of A Down and my favorite prog metal band FROM the Middle East – Myrath have much a better Middle Eastern / Rock / Metal fusion sound than this. I don't find the material here very interesting and it seems like one of those paint-by-numbers type of albums. The lofty concept just doesn't seem like it is matched with songwriting quality. The songs that work best for me are the less metal ones. The growly vocals remind me of Unexpect. The occasional keyboard runs remind me of Dream Theater.

When I read about this it sounds like it should be great but when I listen to this I don't understand the hype. This certainly isn't the worst thing i've heard and there are some good moments but after 67 minutes of this it gets very tedious and well boring. If they would have trimmed this down a bit and edited a lot I might like this more but then again they need to add something to spice this up as well. I haven't heard any other albums by ORPHANED LAND but after finally hearing this release I can't say i'm in a hurry to either.
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