Spheres

Artist: Pestilence
Label: Roadrunner Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016861908126
EAN: 0016861908126
ASIN: B000008JEV

Release Date: 1993-08-31

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Tracks:

Mind Reflections
Mulitple Beings
Level of Perception
Aurian Eyes
Soul Search
Personal Energy
Voices from Within
Spheres
Changing Perspectives
Phileas
Demise of Time

Similar Items:

Testimony of the Ancients
Consuming Impulse/Testimony of the Ancients
Consuming Impulse
Mind Reflections
The Ten Commandments

Customer Reviews:

They should have stopped at Testimony of the Ancients.......2006-01-23

Yeah, yeah its technical. TOO BAD THE MUSIC JUST DOES NOT CUT IT. It seems like some metal bands lost their direction beginning around 1994. If you want to hear Pestilence, go listen to Consuming Impulse or Testimony of the Ancients. I understand that a band wants to experiment, but I sure am glad this was their last album if this was the direction they were going. I am being nice giving this album 2 stars.

Personal Energy is one of the worst songs. Take me back Reduced to Ashes !!!!!!!!

Pestilence = brilliance.......2005-10-01

First of all, on this album Pestilence did not use any type of keyboards rather "synth" type sounds played very well through their guitars. Countless bands of today owe a lot to Pestilence whether they want to admit it or not. They were pioneers in a genre full of meatheads for the most part. The playing on this is outstanding while the rawness/brutality might be lowered just a notch from their previous efforts. Pick this one up and listen to it fully for a few times and you may be blown away at how great of work this is like I was.

Following in the footsteps.......2004-05-18

Damn good album. You can see where Cynic's bassist really left his mark. He also played on Athiest's last album, Elements. Its definitely a great for those who can appreciate it. If you want something heavier, check out Unquestionable by Athiest. It might lose some of you, but this is the best type of metal in my opinion.

Take a chance on this one!.......2003-12-03

I've been pretty obsessed about Pestilence lately and have been feverishly collecting their catalog... "Spheres" is a great, but unfortunate, swansong for them, but it is by no means weak or ill-advised. Very cool free-form jazz mixed with double-kick drums, deathly vocals and swirling synths... Metal purists might hate this, but since these guys had been hinting at this style on both "Consuming Impulse" and "Testimony...", this should come as no surprise to open-minded metal heads. Well worth the price!

Great work!.......2003-10-22

I think every Pestilence album is excellent in it's own right, but this one was a real surprise. When I bought it in 1994, it was exactly what I was looking for at the time. It still sounds like old Pestilence, but they added more ingredents. It has more of the new age, jazzy elements that they were experimenting with on "Testimony..." only now they are using them in full force. The equipment used to record this little gem reads like an entire Musicians Friend inventory. I can only imagine how cluttered the studio was during the recording sessions. So much synthesis and digital processing, but the end result is one astonishingly well written, performed, and produced effort. The sound can be described as "new age jazz for metalheads". My only complaint about the album is that with all of the digital processing and synthesis, the sound is kind of lacking in forcefulness and punch. Guitars and drums that ususally sound "in your face" and "punishing", come across a little flat and lifeless here. I think the emphasis on this album was more on the melody and technicality and less on the brutality of previous albums. The band broke up after this album and I think they all went on to do different kinds of music. This album was a hint of their desires, as you can tell from listening to it that thier interests were starting to broaden and they probably wouldn't be playing metal for too much longer.

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