Nem-Q "301.81"

Country: Netherlands
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal
Label: RVPrecords
Release date: September 21, 2012
Tracklist: 

1. Suburbia - 1:00
2. Oracle - 5:48
3. Terra Forma - 3:42
4. World In Progress - 4:23
5. Perspective, Pt. A: Utopia - 1:38
6. Perspective, Pt. B: Reality - 2:46
7. Perspective, Pt. C: Critical Mass - 4:07
8. Asylum - 3:54
9. Adrian - 3:41
10. Analysis - 4:28
11. 301.81:02 - 3:02
12. Comfort Zone - 5:55

Line-up: 
Paul Sieben - vocals
Mark Reijven - guitars
Henri van Zelst - bass
Dennis Renders - piano
Twan Bakker - drums

Description/Reviews: 

A concept album telling the story of Adrian, who is experiencing serious personality problems. Doctors diagnose the condition as a disease with the symbol "301.81". After implement treatment, Adrian is still experiencing bouts of aggression, suffers from a lack of empathy for the world around him and is very narcissistic. The individual songs on the album give us the dramatic conditions in which his illness falls into and shows how more and more immersed he gets in his own hermetically sealed world, despite numerous attempts from his environment to prevent it...The group feels perfectly at ease mixing different styles. So we have 12 tracks on the album, which enter the mainstream of rock, metal, rhythms jazz / fusion with some references to rock and pop prog... On "301.81" we have to do with an energetic album, which tends toward the dark thinking. It should be emphasized, however, that the music on the new album is not a classic Dutch nor neoprogressive school in which the country has always been known for making the world a number of examples of "good work" in the form of an entire galaxy of outstanding groups and albums richer. Rather, it is music "rock inside", which is likely to win the hearts of both older and younger listeners, looking for innovative sounds and arrangements.

Read the whole review by  Artur Chachlowski (in English at bottom)

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