Brain Drain [Import]

Saber Tiger | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 3, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Video Arts Japan
• ASIN: B00007JMM1
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,109,737 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. First Class Fool

2. Two Dimensional Sky

3. You'd Better Cry Alone

4. Sense of Guilt

5. Dream World

6. Money

7. Desperation

8. Chaos and Order

9. Unreasonable Power

10. Distress

11. First Class Fool [Demo Version '97 Sapporo][*]

12. Chaos and Order [Live Version '99 Tokyo][*]

Editorial Reviews

Japanese edition of 1998 album by veteran Japanese metal actfeaturing a new line up. 10 tracks, including 'First ClassFool' and 'Two Dimensional Sky'. A Fandango Records release.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Japanese Prog, October 21, 2010

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This review is from: Brain Drain (Audio CD)

This is a good solid album full of progressive rock/metal. You can hear many of the band's influences in the music, most notably heavy AWAKE-era Dream Theater. I'm told this album is a departure from the band's more famous style as heard on Paragraph and its sequels.

The riffs are absolutely top-notch. There are fairly extended instrumental parts in some of the songs that are very interesting. The solos are creative and quite good but not SUPER-technical. The vocals, especially on the ballad-y songs are pretty flat (literally) and easily the weakest part of the band. If 80's era vocals generally make you nauseous, I can virtually guarantee you will hate this.

I'd probably give this album 3 and a half stars, but it's too good to round down so I'm rounding up. It's a somewhat flawed album with some great aspects that I'll listen to repeatedly for inspiration.