Freeman

Artist: Labyrinth
Label: King Japan
Category: Music

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Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 4988003308025
ASIN: B0007N35IE

Release Date: 2005-04-14

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Tracks:

L.Y.A.F.H.
Deserter
Dive In Open Waters
Freeman
M3
Face And Pay
Malcolm Grey
Nothing New
Infidels
Meanings

Customer Reviews:

A more mature Labyrinth.......2006-12-09

So what if the latest Labyrinth album doesn't sound like the band's earlier efforts? So what if it isn't the same kind of Italian power metal you're used to? If you want Italian power metal that's never going to change, go listen to the latest swords & sorcery epic from Rhapsody (sorry, Rhapsody of Fire). Labyrinth is, like it or not, a progressive metal band. This means they should be PROGRESSING as a band and continually developing their style, which is exactly what they've done with their 2005 album Freeman.

Freeman is a more mature, more progressive Labyrinth album, and to my ears it is the band's most accomplished work since Return to Heaven Denied. It is still unmistakably a metal album, but one that leans more towards Pain of Salvation and later Fates Warning as influences. This is an intelligent and emotional album (thanks in large part to vocalist Roberto Tiranti's heartfelt delivery), and one that is progressive without trying to overwhelm the listener with over the top technicality. I'm sure this is what the band was trying to achieve with their 2003 transitional self-titled album, but Freeman grabbed me right from the start in a way that the previous album failed to do.

Old school Labyrinth fans and power metal purists may moan about this one, but progressive metal fans should be quite pleased with the more mature metal Labyrinth delivers on Freeman.

.......2005-09-04

Basically, if Fates Warning truly wanted to play progressive melodic metal like they used to do ages ago, but with a modern touch, this is how they would sound like. Freeman shows Labyrinth playing stripped-down power metal that can be dramatic, extremely happy, and passionate. Every track has something unique to offer; yet none of them stand out as mind blowing. But the ideas flowing work well, like the initial spoken word-like exhortation accompanied by a piano segment on "Malcolm Grey", the electronic `sounds' on the title track, or the jazzy interludes on "Face and Pay". Nevertheless, the album maintains a decent balance throughout and never allows outside aspects to take over the metal. It's solidly executed with enough memorable harmonies and interesting moments worth remembering, and that's probably as far as it can go. Worth checking out if , though.

Disappointment.......2005-08-05

This is not a Labyrinth album,it is so different from all their other albums.It is a much slower album,not enough shredding,and half the album is a ballad turn into metal or metal turn into ballad.They have some rock on the album which I don't like.Listen to Face And Pay,during the middle of the song before the solo they have rock in it (pure seventies rock,jazz sound).Once you hear the album you will be blown away by how different it is in a good way or a bad way,but whatever you do don't buy the cd with the dvd(limited edition), if your from U.S.A.or Canada because the dvd doesn't work,it says wrong region.

I bought this a year ago and got rid of it because the dvd didn't work,if anyone has this or bought it recently and the dvd works please write a review and let me know if it works.

READ MY OTHER REVEIW FOR THIS ALBUM IF YOU WANT MORE DETAIL.

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