Spheres [Import]

Pestilence | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 31, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Roadrunner Int'l
• ASIN: B000008JEV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #325,705 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mind Reflections

2. Mulitple Beings

3. The Level of Perception

4. Aurian Eyes

5. Soul Search

6. Personal Energy

7. Voices from Within

8. Spheres

9. Changing Perspectives

10. Phileas

11. Demise of Time

Editorial Reviews

Swedish edition of the Dutch death metal act's 1993 album. 11 tracks. Roadrunner.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take a chance on this one!, December 3, 2003

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"firecrotch" (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spheres (Audio CD)

I've been pretty obsessed about Pestilence lately and have been feverishly collecting their catalog... "Spheres" is a great, but unfortunate, swansong for them, but it is by no means weak or ill-advised. Very cool free-form jazz mixed with double-kick drums, deathly vocals and swirling synths... Metal purists might hate this, but since these guys had been hinting at this style on both "Consuming Impulse" and "Testimony...", this should come as no surprise to open-minded metal heads. Well worth the price!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Spheres" is pure genius, June 10, 2003

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oddity - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spheres (Audio CD)

after 3 records of typical death metal, Pestilence experimented and came up with one of the best metal albums to ever be released. unique sci-fi guitar sounds and guitar synths make this album a progressive masterpiece. this record is highly underrated and anyone with taste in extreme music should have it by now.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings about this CD, November 29, 2009

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Ralf M. Leonhardt (New Haven, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spheres (Audio CD)

My first CD from Pestilence (long ago) had been "Consuming Impulse" and it was exactly this CD that made me to buy the band's other releases as well. Admittedly, I didn't like "Testimony of the Ancient" very much for Mameli's vocal style, the powerless guitar and the far too loud mixed drums. Also, all the keybord in there kind of disturbed me and that the tracks did not have that brutal tempo and aggressive style anymore. Now, with this background you might think, I should hate Spheres even more. It contains even more "keyboard/synthesizer"-derived synthetic sounds and these sounds are now all over the place. Moreover, this is even more a step away from the aggressiveness of "Consuming Impulse", strangely going more into a progressive Jazz-Death Metal fusion, overall very slow in tempo and very melodic. Interestingly however, I liked Spheres much more than "Testimony of the Ancient", perhaps because I felt that this record was at least consequent and consistent. The band obviously wanted to go into a different direction and technically they do so on a very, very high level. Musically, they sound a little like the late Death to me, particularly the vocals resembling Chuck Schuldiner. There are some songs in here that I think are pretty nice. The reason that I still do not give this CD the highest rating is that I kind of feel that there is no song among this material that REALLY fully convinces me. It sounds all nice, there are no obvious "fillers", but there is not a single really outstanding track to be found here (at least in my view). So, I remain with 3 stars and the suggestion that if you want to hear brutal, aggressive Death Metal, stay away from this record (you may consider getting Pestilence's new release "Ressurrection Macabre", instead), but if you think you might like a (not so heavy) fusion of Death Metal and Jazz or you are interested in how something like that may sound, purchase this CD.