Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

It’s been way too long since I posted anything on here. I’m way too lazy sometimes; the internet is such a powerful distraction. In fact, if that one guy hadn’t reminded me of the new Riverside album I would probably have forgotten that I even have a blog. Stupid Preacher has a life so he doesn’t get to post much, but without me this blog would have totally died. And that would have made you, our wonderful readers (All 3 of you), sad. And then I knew what I had to do, I had to review that new Riverside album. That’s what the people want, and I was certain it was going to be awesome. However I was simply not prepared for what I was about to listen to, the most amazing progressive rock album I’ve heard since I discovered Porcupine Tree.

Riverside’s Anno Domini High Definition is simply awesome. Well everything about it is awesome except the title. Did they seriously have to add the “high definition” part? Were all of their old albums in low definition or something? Anyways, I can’t think of anything else about this album that isn’t awesome. Riverside is a band that falls in that strange void between rock and metal. Is it rock? Is it metal? I don’t know, the internet says rock, but sometimes I wonder. The sound is very heavy, with some very metal riffs and kickass drumming combined with great bass. One of my favorite things about prog and avant garde music is that you can actually hear the bass most of the time! Even the keyboards kick ass. How often do you hear that a band has awesome keyboards? Yeah, you don’t. Ever. The vocals are also pretty nice, although I don’t really like the screamy kinda thing he does. It sounds rather silly I’d say. Also, just throwing this irrelevant piece of information out there because I'm bored, the song length increases as the album goes on! The first song is like 5 minutes and the last is 11 minutes and 53 seconds, isn't that wacky?

Anyways, this album as a whole is way better than anything I’ve heard from these guys. It’s just all around awesome and I’m sure prog fans will be delighted, I know I am!

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?om3ncyzkyz0

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