DISILLUSION — Back to Times of Splendor (review)

DISILLUSION — Back to Times of Splendor album cover Album · 2004 · Melodic Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Disillusion's debut album is a genius fusion of aggressive death metal and the prog metal sound of the 1990s. It's most impressive for the way the band manage to combine the best of both genres whilst avoiding their less appealing aspects; on the prog metal side, the band bring in all the technically complex and intricate playing and songwriting of the subgenre whilst the death metal aggression allow them to avoid the cheesiness prog metal can stumble into. At the same time, the progressive metal song structures prevent the death metal side of the band from running into a simplistic rut. On the whole, it's a recipe for success.
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