Music: Jazz Metal
Website: www.counterworldexperience.de
Duration: 43:31 minutes (9 tracks)
Country: Germany
Bands which occupy wide comprehended Progressive Metal I treat as pearls on bottom of musical ocean. I listen Metal music almost 20 years and by this time I experienced through all species of Metal. Cyclic periods were in this time where I kept my attention on one kind of Metal particularly and now I am the most fascinated of Progressive Metal in every his impression, independently from his admixture as Power,Thrash, Death, Black or different species of Rock. I think that Progressive Metal is on the highest storey of evolution of Metal music. Progressive Metal is the most open species of Metal and the most important is that not every be able to play Progressive Metal, in contrast of e.g. Death or Black Metal. Progressive Metal is simply progressive!
German COUNTER-WORLD EXPERIENCE is representative progressive playing. They define their music as Jazz Metal and it is clearly hear on the album of “Fraktal”, because we will find not only many Metal patents here but and elements of Jazz, Blues or Rock. The tracks are arranged very richly and they have difficult rhythmical sections, unexpected changes of moods and musical subject-matters. The tracks inflict impression of continuously improvisations, though surely every sound is closely planned. The music would not be Metal if heavy guitar's parties would not were here however the guitar's phrases are pretty specific, with very difficult and technical rhythms, often with damp riffs. Those crushing, heavy parties of guitars perfectly join with masterly guitar-keyboards solos, cosmic samples, gentle ambient keyboards, clean passages of guitars as well as with very complex rhythmical squad. The every musician has something to offering here like remembered above varied parties of guitar, keyboards or masterly arrangements of bass and the drums which moments is able to beat in a ground listener pretty well. Only vocal parties are seldom spoken robotic sayings, and unfortunately I feel deficit of more complex vocal partiesit here.
The music of “Fraktal” creates pretty diverse climate from dark, cold or cosmic moods to melancholy and insanity. Evidently someone would can reproach that it is not true Metal. And what is true Metal? Surely it is not music for simple people or closed in traditional frames. The music is for intelligent people, open for new solutions, be able to really intently listen in so rich arrangements.
note: 9.5/10
Tracklist
01. Fraktal
02. Equinox
03. Chaoslace
04. Vortex
05. Space Left
06. Gaia
07. The Virtual Factor
08. Watercolored
09. Brothers of Venus, Sisters of Mars
Line-up
Benjamin Schwenen: Guitar & Synth Guitar, Programing
Thorsten Hernitz: Drums
H.D. Lorenz: Bass
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