Freeman

Freeman
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 8437001017645
ASIN: B0007OQCQ0


Release Date: 2005-05-10

Freeman


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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars 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.

3 out of 5 stars

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