Sage4

This is really far from your average Neoretroprogmelodic AOR Band that claims the term “Progressive Metal“ for their efforts, this is outstanding, unique, mystical, magical and utterly beautiful. The female singer has an enchanting voice, hot and naughty here, angelic there and full of desperate passion in the next moment. She’s charismatic to the bone and gives most female singers in the so called “progressive“ genre a run for their money. As outstanding as her voice is the instrumental background that unleashes twisted, yet whipping guitar attacks, hypnotic harmony rolls and rhythms that flash around you like little sparks. It is still metal, a very special kind of metal, far from every mainstream approach. Fans of latter day DREAM THEATER, their heaviest or more psychedelic compositions, fans of MADDER MORTEM, INDUKTI and INTO ETERNITY will phreak out on SAGE4. The music leads you through bewitched soundscapes, draws very colourful, yet dark and gloomy pictures that will suck your spirit in and swallow your dreams like a black hole. The leadguitars are always wild and wicked, they show an axeman on the border of obsession and insanity, which he even touches but never crosses. This is a giant sound movie that demands your time. It is not only one spin that will make you fully understand this album, it needs quite a few rounds in your player to unfold it’s complete magick. And then you cannot return to your grey and cold reality anymore. Awesome and hot progressive metal!
Sir Lord Doom