Riverside Second Life Syndrome
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OmairSh
July 21st 2014


17931 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"reminds me too much of Jonas Renkse's voic"



Whaaa, that thought did not occur once for me. Yeah they're not exactly ground breaking, but they do

what they do very well. They're atmospheric sections are on par with PT's.

Onirium
July 21st 2014


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Wouldn't go that far, but yeah they do what they do very well, and what they do sounds pretty cool.

I'm jamming Shrine of New Generation Slaves right now, and it's pretty good too

OmairSh
July 21st 2014


17931 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I actually enjoyed a few of their atmospheric keyboard tones more than PT's. But they're both good

bands.



ADHD next, it's Riverside's foray into prog metal, and is one of my favourites of the genre. You'll

see their innovation, creativity, and musicality at an absolute peak on that.

Onirium
July 21st 2014


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh nice, I was thinking about checking their more metal side next, but people seemed to think ADHD was their worst one

OmairSh
July 21st 2014


17931 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

ADHD gets a lot of hate on sputnik, and I don't understand why. They think the metal aspect seems awkward in a Riverside context, kind of like the complaints about IA, Deadwing, and Fear. Check the reviews outside of sputnik and you'll realise how much it's loved by people

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
July 21st 2014


21027 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

It has their most consistently long songs so there must be something to it

Onirium
July 21st 2014


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Just checked the tracklist on Wikipedia, I love 5-song albums where almost every song is over 8-minute long. Also, wikipedia labeled the album "progressive rock, progressive metal, jazz fusion". I have trouble imagining jazz-fusion in Riverside, but yeah I'll see I guess

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
July 21st 2014


21027 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Aren't those the same genre tags as Heritage?...

OmairSh
July 21st 2014


17931 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I started getting exhausted with albums over 60 minutes, and I was surprised that ADHD is only 45

minutes. It makes it easier to digest. And the song lengths increase with every track, how progressive

eh. Jazz fusion is stretching it, but they have some really cool instrumental sections. Hopefully I

haven't raised the expectations too much.



Reality Dream 3 live, Michal is a Hammond organ KING. Makes sense when his biggest idol is Jon Lord.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxj8zvNMi0M

Onirium
July 21st 2014


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Great, I'll check out, I really love Hammond Organ! Jamming ADHD right now, I dig the heavier sound so far, Hyperactive is a great opener

OmairSh
September 15th 2014


17931 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I WISH YOU TOLD ME THAT BEFOOOOOOOOOOORE

Limoncello
November 21st 2015


21 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Very late in the game here, and probably nobody will read this comment, but Before deserves a mention too. Perfect album closer.

OmairSh
November 21st 2015


17931 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah it's a really good song, almost gets forgotten because of the material before it

Asdfp277
November 21st 2015


25666 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"Conceiving you" is lovely too !



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