Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine II flac album

You know what’s worse than a Progressive Rock band doing 60-70 minutes albums? A Progressive Rock band which hasn’t anything to offer, one that relies in image and imagery only. When Saviour Machine released their second eponymous album, none could even be bothered: the band had lost their occasion of being a commercial machine. In truth, very few people, in the wake of Grunge/Alternative music, would have dared to explore a prolix and self-referential band like this. Alas! Saviour Machine weren’t even interesting. Their tomes (not albums) were filled of extremely heavy (in terms of pace and songwriting) songs that were put in a place and didn’t even attempt to move from that point. Worse, one of them here, “The Stand”, stands as a sort of Guinness World Record for the most boring 16 minutes suite ever existing in the world. The rest of the album finds Jeff Clayton warning sings of angels descending from Heaven, demons rising from Hell, apostles coming to save the world, enormous crosses which roll all over the Earth destroying cities like they were religious Godzillas and decanting that American living is bad: all of this with a croon inherited from David Bowie, a positivist message inherited from Roger Waters and the charisma inherited from a rat, above saccharine keyboard arrangements and Ultra-Soft-Rock guitar lines. Come on, with bands like Yes, Type O Negative and even Moonspell, who needs these pseudo-apocalyptic prophets anymore? And, unfortunately, it wouldn’t have been their last album.Highlights: “Ascension of Heroes”.