![]() ![]() It is difficult to really pick a favourite song or album highlight when you consider that there are only five songs and they are all great and that they are paradoxically similar in their diversity. All the music sounds like Riverside to one degree or another, which is part of the album's strength. These sonic references are only loosely reminiscent though, not actual sound-alikes. By the nine-minute mark the songs sounds equal parts Tool and Dream Theater, while also having a sort of Pink Floyd's `One Of These Days' or `Sheep' feel to it. ![]() The fourth track `Left Out' for example is a slow and brooding key driven song that brings to mind Led Zeppelin's `No Quarter' as much as it does the softer sides of Camel, Pink Floyd, Opeth and the likes at the beginning at least, until of course it kicks into a metal section at the four minute mark, but then again even that is overlaid with Deep Purple sounding keys. The songs are still slow building, proggy and diverse in a way, but this is a notably different way than on their earlier albums. There is less of a focus on texture and more of a focus on musicianship. The album moves a little outside the band's established sound (even the style of artwork is a different from the band's established tradition) and the music is a little funkier, more bass driven and a little more Deep Purple influenced than any of their other releases. It went gold in Poland and was surrounded by a considerable hype and expectation around the time of its release. It was released in 2009 and is their first full length-album that isn't part of the conceptual series `Reality Dream.' The album consists of five tracks, arranged from shortest to longest, beginning with a five-minute track and ending on an almost twelve-minute one. Anno Domini High Definition is the fourth full-length studio album by the Polish Progressive Metal band Riverside. ![]()
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