James LaBrie
Impermanent Resonance
Review by Gary Hill
In a lot of ways this makes me think of Dream Theater. Of course, when you’ve got heavy, progressive music with James LaBrie singing, that makes sense. This tends a lot of the time toward more pure metal, though. Some of that comes from some extreme metal vocals. I’m not a big fan of that kind of thing, but for the most part it works all right here. There is always enough prog on hand to keep this landing under metal, though. I’d have to say that while every song here is quite good, after a while some of it tends to be too similar. That really only gets problematic near the end of the set, though. Overall, this is quite a strong album that should be of interest to Dream Theater fans in particular, but also to any fans of heavy, progressive music.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2013 Volume 6 at lulu.com/strangesound.
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