Mr Peabody
02-19-2005, 04:06 PM
This was my first album by this group and I really don't know much about them. Artificial Paradise is their third album and the one that appealed to me the most from the sound bytes. I am not disappointed. This is a very good album. Although they are considered Prog the songs on the most part have a commercial or polished sound. I don't say this as a negative, the songs have power and emotion. Some of the songs are 8 to 9 minutes but I was so drawn in they seem to go by twice as fast. The songs had a nice flow to them not many radical transitions in one song. They seem to build on a musical thought or carry it out to it's completion without doing musical 180's. The vocals are very good, the singer reminded me at times of the singer for Queensryche. I did notice a few familiar Prog riffs or cliche's but not enough to give me a negative empression of the song that had it. This album is on the Prog Rock Records label. I can't think of anyone to compare Sylvan to. This is a very good album in general but excels in melodic and passionate passages. I never heard this term used in Prog Rock but some of the songs you could almost call "power ballads".
It's a shame that music this good doesn't get more exposure. Does anyone else here have any Sylvan? I would be interested to hear how this album struck others or receive any other information about Sylvan.
It's a shame that music this good doesn't get more exposure. Does anyone else here have any Sylvan? I would be interested to hear how this album struck others or receive any other information about Sylvan.