Flashback CD Review #92 - Marshall - Pages From The Past: Tome 1

This review was written for the Rock Is Life.com Reviews in Brief section in 2006.

Marshall
Pages From The Past: Tome 1
PMP Production / Frontiers Records - 2005
http://www.marshallatlantis.it

The Verdict

I know that Frontiers was only the distributor for this album, but I have to wonder if anyone at Frontiers bothered to listen (or should I say, attempt to listen) to this album.

I though the instrumentals "Victims of Science" and "Pentekonter" were pretty good. They were short and sweet with a nice sense of melody and timing.

Of course there were the other 8 songs on the album, and therein lies the problem. The band has issues with exactly what kind of music they want to play. They've got the high end melodic vocals alongside a female soprano and death metal vocals. The lyrics are a mess on the first song "Mission: Empire". The music sounds as if the band recorded their parts separately with no one knowing what would end up on each song and then just mashing things together to see if they could make it fit into one cohesive whole.

They failed. If you leave out the two instrumentals, this is just an abysmal CD.

Rating: 1 out of 5