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Trollheart · 09-30-2012, 05:15 AM

Not the sort of elegy I'd like to leave behind: a little "lost", perhaps?

Artiste: Elegy
Nationality: Dutch
Album: Lost
Year: 1995
Label: TNT/Noise
Genre: Power Progressive Metal
Tracks:
Lost
Everything
Clean up your act
Always with you
Under God's naked eyes
1998 (The Prophecy)
Spirits
Crossed the line
Live it again
Spanish Inquisition
Chronological position: Third album
Familiarity: Zero
Interesting factoid:
Initial impression: Well, the first word that comes to mind is overblown...
Best track(s): Everything, Under God's naked eyes, 1998 (The Prophecy), Crossed the line
Worst track(s): Clean up your act, Live it again
Comments: I've taken a few tracks from Elegy over the past year or so, mostly in Random Track of the Day, but never sat down and listened to a full album. This is their third, and I must say from the off I don't like the opener and title track: way too much happening a la Dream Theater, with too much technical expertise seeming to be there on show just for the sake of it. Things get a little better with Everything, a hint of melodic AOR in there, but you know, it's all exciting and energetic and fun and all, but, well, it's just boring me.

Okay, well this might be better: nice power ballad with some expressive synth, great guitar solo, emotional vocals ... yeah, like this a lot. Chalk up Under God's naked eyes as my standout so far, no question. And the instrumental that follows is it a great piece of guitar work, though I suppress a guffaw at the idea of 1998 being a prophecy. Come on, it was written in 1995 after all. Runs nicely into Spirits, which is fine until vocalist Eduard Hovinga begins singing, as it sounds very muddy. There's some nice progressive metal going on in Crossed the line, with some pretty solid keyswork, bu then the last two tracks just totally let this, let's be honest, completely average album down.
Overall impression: Sort of meh. Okay in places, never particularly brilliant. Maybe I just caught a bad album?
Intention: I know Elegy can do better than this, so I'll probably check out another of theirs at some point. This however has made me less eager to do that any time soon.

09-30-2012, 05:15 AM	#97 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Not the sort of elegy I'd like to leave behind: a little "lost", perhaps? Artiste: Elegy Nationality: Dutch Album: Lost Year: 1995 Label: TNT/Noise Genre: Power Progressive Metal Tracks: Lost Everything Clean up your act Always with you Under God's naked eyes 1998 (The Prophecy) Spirits Crossed the line Live it again Spanish Inquisition Chronological position: Third album Familiarity: Zero Interesting factoid: Initial impression: Well, the first word that comes to mind is overblown... Best track(s): Everything, Under God's naked eyes, 1998 (The Prophecy), Crossed the line Worst track(s): Clean up your act, Live it again Comments: I've taken a few tracks from Elegy over the past year or so, mostly in Random Track of the Day, but never sat down and listened to a full album. This is their third, and I must say from the off I don't like the opener and title track: way too much happening a la Dream Theater, with too much technical expertise seeming to be there on show just for the sake of it. Things get a little better with Everything, a hint of melodic AOR in there, but you know, it's all exciting and energetic and fun and all, but, well, it's just boring me. Okay, well this might be better: nice power ballad with some expressive synth, great guitar solo, emotional vocals ... yeah, like this a lot. Chalk up Under God's naked eyes as my standout so far, no question. And the instrumental that follows is it a great piece of guitar work, though I suppress a guffaw at the idea of 1998 being a prophecy. Come on, it was written in 1995 after all. Runs nicely into Spirits, which is fine until vocalist Eduard Hovinga begins singing, as it sounds very muddy. There's some nice progressive metal going on in Crossed the line, with some pretty solid keyswork, bu then the last two tracks just totally let this, let's be honest, completely average album down. Overall impression: Sort of meh. Okay in places, never particularly brilliant. Maybe I just caught a bad album? Intention: I know Elegy can do better than this, so I'll probably check out another of theirs at some point. This however has made me less eager to do that any time soon. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 01-13-2015 at 11:50 AM.