REDEMPTION — The Fullness Of Time (review)

REDEMPTION — The Fullness Of Time album cover Album · 2005 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Redemption has been becoming more and more famous; from being just a side project of Nick Van Dyk to a real full-time band featuring one of the most talented and famous vocalists of the progressive metal scene, Ray Adler from Fates Warning. With their second album, “The Fullness Of Time”, the band does a huge step toward from their sound in the debut album, and create an excellent album.

Of course Nick Van Dyk called in for this band all excellent musicians, two from Fates Warning ( Ray Adler, mentioned above, and Bernie Versailles on lead guitar), two from the band Prymary (bassist James Sherwood and drummer Chris Quirarte), so it’s easy to understand how ambitious this project should have been. The style is pretty much straight-forward progressive metal; long songs, memorable epic sounding melodies, fast shredding guitar solos alternated with keyboard solos, very skilled musicianship on the behalf of everybody, powerful vocals. Of course they are elements that make this band “unique”; Ray Adler’s voice is kind of fragile and delicate sounding, despite singing without ever hesitating and being easily able to reach high notes. I though can’t really give Ray Adler the medal for originality, since his voice has already been known from Fates Warning. The songwriting is one of the true shiny diamonds of this album; songs like “Sapphire”, “Parker’s Eyes”, “Threads” and even the final suite “The Fullness Of Time” require a lot of talent and creativity, whether you like them or not. These are songs that every prog metal fan will like or even love, simply because they are the true and simple definition of the genre, even though sometimes they aren’t quite as original or experimental than you would think.

“Threads” is a really awesome and gripping song, with many rhythm changes and with, of course excellent musicianship. Every thing about this song to me is good, there is not one bad moment in it. I couldn’t describe the next three songs better than how I just described this first song, keeping though in mind that “Sapphire” has one of the most unbelievable metal performances of all time by a vocalist. Truly amazing work. The twenty one minute suite is where this album finds it’s weak point, and I know many will disagree about this; Everything is just less captivating, less haunting, even though the experimentation is a little wider, especially in the last part “Transcendence”.

But honestly I really think this is an album that should be considered a lot more than how it is now, because of it’s amazing solid structure and great content.
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