(Progressive/Doom Metal) Circle Of Nero - Massive Obliss - 1999, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

A beautiful intro with some chants and clean guitars open this CD, getting into the first track that is pure heavy metal, in fact it is really progressive heavy metal, with many changes and a vocalist that uses a medium range with some gothic reminiscences which I like more than many of the high pitched guys out there (I don´t know why I feel some Candlemass in some parts....great!!). There is a great guitar work here in the vein of guys like John Petrucci or Savatage with interesting solos (even using a whammy pedal on "Mother Doom"). The sound is really good (it can be a little better on the drums, and maybe it would be a good idea to add some bottom end to the guitar too). This guys have many ideas and they combine a lot of them on each track giving an atmosphere of complexity to the songs. If you like elaborated metal this is definitely for you.
Favorite tracks: "Dark Side of Eternity", "Moon Quake" and "Church of the Pagan God".
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Gary McCaffrey - Vocals
Koky Flores - Guitar
Thomas Staples - Bass
Jake Vorrath - Drums
Scott Carter - Keyboards
Doyle Stone - Vocals
Produced by Circle of Nero
Recorded at Walton Recording Studio
Artwork by Chad Michael Ward

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
EAC extraction logfile from 30. January 2010, 10:42
CIRCLE OF NERO / Massive Obliss
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2 | 6:22.04 | 4:11.32 | 28654 | 47510
3 | 10:33.36 | 7:50.38 | 47511 | 82798
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11 | 52:30.63 | 0:17.11 | 236313 | 237598
12 | 55:19.74 | 11:29.25 | 248999 | 300698
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