TIME MACHINE — Shades Of Time (review)

TIME MACHINE — Shades Of Time album cover EP · 1997 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
1967/ 1976
Another good or little masterpiece from Italy. In this case is an album of Hard Prog Metal Rock!!! Strange definition of the Time Machine genre but true!!! I think that Morby (former of Sabotage) is one of the best Italian Metal singers and in this sense the Morby interpretation in "Heaven And Hell" is more cold that the original Dio interpretation but as much valid and capable of to kidnap the hearts of every Progster. But this album is also "Silent Revolution" and "1,000 Rainy Nights" two examples of Hard Rock with Prog arrengements or "New Religion", another Hard Rock but very Prog. In any case Morby and the electric guita dominate the scene, leaving little space to the emotions (also "1,000 Rainy Nights and "New Religion" are very emotional songs!!!). "Never-Ending Love" is a real masterpiece of Hard Rock and one of the pearls of this album (Why, there it is some song that does not be a pearl in "Shades Of Time"?) but the treated voice of Morby doesn't convince me (and yet it pleases me, because it changes the album, otherwise monotonous!!!). The final track is the second Black Pearl of this album. In fact "Past And Future (1997 Version)" with sax and guitar and the boiling interpretation of Morby is one of the more emotional Prog song of all time.

Extreme recommended album. If you hate or it doesn't yourselves please Prog Metal, this is the just approach with Prog Metal.
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