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Imperial is a major achievement by the Swedish group and easily their best record yet.
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Soen began their lives as a ripoff of Tool. Somewhere along their path, they worked out their own individual, highly-polished sound. This is a sound that I've liked a whole lot in the past (their 2019 LP, Lotus was one of my favorites in prog from that year). But this sounds a lot like a much more boring re-hashing of Lotus, and I'm starting to feel like Soen might be a one-trick pony. It's not bad, and it is a sparkly, polished, well-produced album front to back... but damn do I wish they had ... read more
Really good prog metal with good focuses on riffage and melody over technicality. This is a solid album this year.
First half is a bit boring, second one is less predictable and fun. Also, I love how the drums sound on this record. They now have a distinguishable sound, so there's no excuse to keep calling them a Tool ripoff at this point.
Rights about economy and gender neutral important, not priority about corruption people, pride genderism, wealth selfishness, and etc. Even they've done in lawmakers and dying our heroes themselves to get free independency and educated the youth society today. The instrumental so stringing strength, affordable bounce drum, electrical notes. These lyricism became so powerful needed to improvement for meaningful life importance especially production too.
