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MUSIC WAVES (FEBRUARY 2012)

Rating: 5.5/10 | If the last album of Oceans Of Night was tentatively received in writing (see chronicle Val) is mainly due to a lack of risk taking and the music too bland for convince. The second album from U.S. Domain, the tone of an album with new desires with a longer 17-minute epic title and producer best known for his role as bassist (Fates Warning) in the person of Joey Vera. Domain starts just by the big chunk of the album, "Domain", and 17 minutes. Large for its length but surely not by its quality. For "Domain" contains the stale old recipes of progressive metal without making any really new. A good half of the title is to install a dedicated room, with keyboards, sound effects and guitar solos, and the second half offers nothing that deserves a long development. In the middle of it all floats the voice of Scott Oliva brings a dark side and depressed to a set already gloomy. Other titles alternate heavy metal sauce strongly progressive keyboards ("The Future Remembered"), the reverb vocals ("Ghosts Of The Past") and worked soli ("Intruments Of Fear"). Domain not known point peak and, apart from one's very kitsch, it contains no real fault. Consistency in the banality is required. Domain never really takes off really progressive metal cliches. One more album for a group of more. Two years after their previous album, the situation remains essentially the same.Domain will not date.

- translated via Google from French.

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