ANUBIS GATE — The Detached (review)

Album · 2009 · Progressive Metal

5/5 · 2015-07-02
666sharon666

Anubis Gate's fourth album The Detached, their only one so far to feature the exact same line-up as the previous one, is easily my favourite release by the band. They've had a strong run of incredible albums starting with their second A Perfect Forever which has still continued to date, their latest release being their sixth, Horizons, but none of those other releases can really touch this one. The Detached shows off every element I've come to expect from an Anubis Gate record.

They've always been a progressive metal band, but this is easily their most progressive sounding release. While still focussed on writing songs over extra long and complex stuff they've left more room for high level playing and instrumental sections. They've always used some power metal elements but here they are more prominent than ever before. It's the closest they've ever come to the prog/power metal branding the band usually gets labelled with actually being justified. There are some symphonic elements in the music which are quite effective too. The album is another science fiction concept piece like Andromeda Unchained, but the music flows even better than it did on that album. Several songs standout as being worth their own mentions, but I'm not going to. The album deserves to be listened to from start to finish without interruption. A masterpiece of modern, melodic progressive metal.

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powermetal2000 wrote:

more than 2 years ago

I actually have a copy of the first one, though it's my least favourite by them. Copies of that one seemed to hang around at decent prices a lot longer. I can hear why, the band hadn't really found their sound at that point.

I also have the two most recent ones which are good but I don't enjoy them so much as the one's with Jacob Hansen. This one and Andromeda Unchained, those are the must owns for any Anubis Gate fan.

666sharon666 wrote:

more than 2 years ago

I'd like to hear that too. I also own the originals.

adg211288 wrote:

more than 2 years ago

Apparently the box set will also contain an extra double CD of rare, unreleased and live material too. I'm fortunate to have managed to get all the original CDs so the set probably won't be worth me buying when it eventually happens, but I'd like to hear the extra stuff so I hope that gets a solo release as well.

Unitron wrote:

more than 2 years ago

I hope they release that box set, because I would love to own the first two albums.

666sharon666 wrote:

more than 2 years ago

Yeah the prices of the first four AG albums can be quite ridiculous. They keep talking about this boxset they're going to do but I don't know what sort of timescale we can expect that to have. Last I heard they were going to do a kickstarter for it.

powermetal2000 wrote:

more than 2 years ago

Their masterpiece. I enjoy Andromeda Unchained a lot too. Wish this album wasn't so hard to find now. Been looking for a copy for ages.