Anacrusis

From what I can gather, this band started out as typical death/thrash metal, and slowly gravitated towards a more melodic, technical sound.

"Manic Impressions"

  1. "Paint a Picture" (5:57)
  2. "I Love the World" (4:49)
  3. "Something Real" (5:59)
  4. "Dream Again" (3:20)
  5. "Explained Away" (6:01)
  6. "Still Black" (6:08)
  7. "What You Became" (5:10)
  8. "Our Reunion" (4:53)
  9. "Idle Hours" (4:36)
  10. "Far Too Long" (5:50)

Working backwards through the Anacrusis discography here...this album is quite different from Screams and Whispers, much darker and more raw. The music forms a perfect union of technical metal and all-out thrash, which lends itself to quite a unique sound. Not bad!

"Screams and Whispers"

  1. "Sound the Alarm" (5:39)
  2. "Sense of Will" (4:52)
  3. "Too Many Prophets" (5:27)
  4. "Release" (4:19)
  5. "Division" (4:38)
  6. "Tools of Separation" (6:10)
  7. "Grateful" (5:13)
  8. "A Screaming Breath" (4:19)
  9. "My Soul's Affliction" (4:30)
  10. "Driven" (5:51)
  11. "Brotherhood?" (6:51)
  12. "Release"--remix (4:16)

Technical, progressive thrash. "Sound the Alarm" is by far the best song here, and as a result, the rest kinda pales in comparison. I taped that song from a friend's CD, and this particular disc was sitting in the used bins for over a year, until I finally picked it up once I figured it was worth getting for that one song. A few other tracks are okay, particularly "Grateful", and the mostly instrumental "Brotherhood?", but all in all it's a one-song album. :)

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