ANUBIS GATE — A Perfect Forever (review)

ANUBIS GATE — A Perfect Forever album cover Album · 2005 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
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A Perfect Forever is the first Anubis Gate album to credit a full band, though bassist Henrik Fevre didn't actually play on the album for some reason, only providing backing vocals and additional lead vocals on a couple of tracks. This was their last release with singer Torben Askholm. Their next vocalist Jacob Hansen guests on the album but not as a lead vocalist.

A Perfect Forever shows a big improvement over Anubis Gate's debut album Purification. The traditional metal roots heard on the debut are all but gone. The music is more progressive, the riffs better and the song-writing more memorable. There are also a few more power metal elements to be found, but this is still most firmly in the progressive metal camp. People seem to always call the band prog/power metal but I think that's misleading. What they are at this stage is a guitar driven progressive metal act that uses but doesn't overly rely on keyboards (that starts to change after this album). I think it will appeal to progressive metal fans who don' necessarily want an over-polished production. I personally prefer the stuff that was still to come at this point, but A Perfect Forever is also a must own progressive metal record in my book.
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