Friday, August 23, 2024

Darius - A Poet's Soliloquy (1994)

The debut album from this band from Germany.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

This band released two albums between 1994 and 1997. I got both of them for reviews and the second review will follow next week.

This album is a seventy-four minutes long album. The music is early, mostly first generation neo-prog. 

References is early Marillion. The vocalist tries his best to sound like Fish. That without having as good vocal chords and pipes as Fish. Hence the vocals is decent but not good.

The songs are more in the pop songs vein than in the symphonic prog epics vein. The music is therefore very melodic. The guitars has this unfortunate 1990s guitar sound and that is not good at all.

The band has tried to make catchy songs. They have failed. The sound is at least pretty good.

The result is a decent enough album well worth checking out if the 1990s neo-prog sound floats your boat.

2 points



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