Persona Non Grata - Shade In The Light

This is the debut album from Persona Non Grata. A progressive metal album following the Greek Prog tradition of Wastefall and Fragile Vastness. Even if its against progressive’s definition, you’ll find all the classic progressive elements here. Melodies, piano, keyboards all blending with some very nice song writing. The production is good to.
\r\nDream Theater , Pain of Salvation and Poverty’s No Crime and mainly the sounds that you’ll hear on this cd. All in all it’s a pretty descent work. We do have some problems here though.
\r\nDespite the fact songs aren’t long I found myself tired after a while. Complexity does that but I guess that’s a risk you take when you play progressive metal. In addition to that, vocalist Bill Axiotis doesn’t have a great range and an ability to hit high notes. That makes the vocal line flat and a little boring.
\r\nThis is only for prog metal fans and I suggest to hear it before you buy it.
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\r\nVassilis ’ fixxxer’ Tserpes
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