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The aim of the French band Indrazor is to seduce a widespread
audience, so they say. After a few demos – they’ve been active since
1997 – their first full length album “Cocoon to butterfly”
must accomplish this.
I’m afraid I haven’t been seduced by their music at all. Most songs
don’t sound very consisting and seem to be a basket full of
fragments all glued together, rather than sophisticated rock songs.
The guitars often have an irritating sound and the singer is not one
of the best I have heard lately. I guess the music should be called
progressive rock. There’s one ballad (Wild Winter) and one
very traditional rock ‘n’ roll song (Knockin’ on the Door) on
the album, but as the rest of the songs, they aren’t really
convincing.
The intro of On the Highway is possibly the best thing to be
heard on this record, starting of as a symphonic rock song but alas,
it only lasts 30 seconds. Somewhere in the middle of First
Meeting there’s a nice Genesis-like fragment, but it’s
too short to save the song. I don’t know what they do with their
instruments, but sometimes they sound as if the recording level was
way to high! I must admit though, that the bass player is quite
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