Review Summary: I always wanted to give you more than I can take.
I pray to God to wash away my little cells of gold blood. Grains of sand fall into my eyes and cover them by empty modern greed. Kingdom Come is both monothematic and adequate in its construct. It’s the song that amplified motif to the rest of the record. As a concept album A Perfect Forever focuses on middle-earth ancient Egypt empire and ancient god’s beliefs, what the band name of course says. What brings us within to the raw meat. Sanctified is lateral on many levels. Track is portraying the battle between old and new culture where atmosphere is built top notch. Classical guitar sounds are flying like pure granules of sand. It’s definitely best track on the records. Following Kingdom Come is solid too, according to catchy simpleness in lyrical hook. Lound and high notes work on emotional layer. Symbiosis among the band is magical. Future Without the Past is setting up to the local ceremony and Curfew calmly revisit your dreams.
Tones from the classic guitar, perfectly sewed between heavier parts, are soothing my soul, which is totally out of my mind shown on Approaching Inner Circle. I always want and wanted to move you into my inner world, unfortunately no one ever wanted to be closer to me, expect music, because music play, not listen, oh irony, and it’s good for me, it keeps me alive for more than seven or eight years, instead of you people, oh irony x2. Did you understand me? People make music, but only music can work for me. What I want to say now is when some artists play good music you know it from the first notes from the record. The whole package of emotions and feelings is deftly hide inside. The voice hidden behind the wall of the massive sound is the mistake of production in 2005, but on the other hand Endless Grief surprised positively by that aspect. Moreover, He is pretty good damn actor in his voice voyages. He can sing Tate or Armstrong as he wants.
As I said Approaching Inner Circle is ultra-atmospheric track by the acoustic guitar, it’s a shame that the composition is stretched without cause. The vocal parts are starting to drag down the whole composition because of its intrusiveness. Generally, album in the middle, start to being illusion of itself. You’ve got development of action and you do the four song stopgap Children of the Pauper King, Approaching Inner Circle, The Wanton Blade of Lust and Epitome of Delusion. Come on, they could do better instead 5- or 6-minutes of mediocrity.
Praise the transitions and motifs which are great in the album. Both can and create the inner bubble of this power metal opera. Worth adding is fact about range of Torben’s vocal. With his variety he brings the best memories from music. As the one interluding track Endless Grief start like the Green Day’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which in power-symphonic-metallic clothes sound even better. It brings us to the longest in stake. Landscape isn’t obvious like the rest and whole record. Thanks to the Torben, once again, who can and sing like one bald egocentric Billy Corgan, what in juxtaposition to heavy tones of guitars, massive percussions and sound effects, similar to hot sandy land, are arousing mixed feelings, mixed I mean diverse. It’s characteristic connection, many will fall there.
I could be wrong, although Anubis Gate didn’t make huge boom in the industry with their curiosity of the World and their ambitions for creating something with deeper meaning. Not for the masses, just for inquisitive entities like we are. That’s why we reach for music like that. For the answers of the questions without keys. Maybe that’s the reason they and we do this? To push our boundaries and then the boundaries people which surrounding us. Always, mainstreamers don’t reach too far. Definitely A Perfect Forever is the creator of heavy questions and themes without one clear answer. Perhaps I am looking for something missing from the Danish artist that I cannot just find for the long time, and I’m the one called the Weirdo, but believe me or not in every single time special product have the positive effect on me, moreover this cd does it. The saddest fact is that the band like the record is forgotten and I tried to vacuum some dust from it with this attempt. Here I am writing about band Anubis Gate from one of my favourite countries to move and live in Denmark. The band mixed together many influences to end with their own play on their own musically experimental field divorced far from hustle and bustle of filled by thousands of people stadiums with your all time favourite one season star.
After many years of searching the unknown in music, I can tell with hand on my heart, A Perfect Forever contains true and culture value inside, indeed. It’s not perfect, mastering is momentary overproduced, vocal starts to annoying when they have more space to shine, but it’s ok, because it speaks to me, and I can feel it, like the way they used to mean it and wanted.
There’s a hundred of albums like particularly this one, for all that A Perfect Forever had something hypnotizing and intriguing inside, notably on first for tracks, which aren’t beat later in the record.
