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Enter The Future Exit
Cirrha Niva →64 listeners277 plays
progressive metalprogressive rockmetalrockdutch
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Background Magazine Holland Cirrha Niva Enter The Future Exit 1999 27:20, Parnassus Records, Cdemo CN003) Now, This is a tough nut to crack. I've spun this record to its dizziness and I'm still getting used to it. And I still don't know what label to stick to it. Sometimes those records turn out to be the best, just like good wine needs its time. Sure, it'll be filed under progressive metal, but there's more to it. Opener "Vacuum" (9:09) combines a dramatic opening with hairwaving guitar riffs. Nothing that'll cheer you up, the atmosphere is, due to the vocals, sometimes overwhelmingly negative. Bass player Liselotte Hegt supports singer Arnold Kloek in the back. She can make her voice sound a little sick, which is big gain to the atmosphere. In the second song, "Sky decor" (10:21), she sings "My depression, insanity", and that's precisely how she sounds. This song is one of many an influence. Drama, art-rock, sheer metal, symphonic rock and even some jazzy pieces all take turns. I've heard some Savatage (piano), some Dutch neo-progrock (mainly Arnold's vocals, unfortunately his lacks the hardrock-heavymetal-whisky-and-sigarettes roughness), but vaguely, mind you! Somehow "Enter the future exit" sounds like a record that only could have been made by a Dutch band, it has that "art school" touch, does anyone know what I mean? Alquin, for example, however diffent their music was, had that same touch. The last two songs were recorded live in Tilburg's 013 venue and are a
