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Symphony X

Description:

Symphony Xs eighth studio opus (and first for Nuclear Blast), 2011s Iconoclast, sees the New Jersey progressive metal veterans exploring the potential dangers of technological overkill over the same prog-power-symphonic metal foundation thats served them well for two decades. Why mess with a winning formula, right? And so, the albums 11-minute title track pulls no major sonic surprises, yet still sets the albums sophisticated tone, thanks to the lush orchestrations and choirs draped across the bands traditionally metallic attack. Some might say it comes across like Queensryches Suite Sister Mary on steroids, but it also represents the most overblown qualities to be found here, along with subsequent epics like the Children of a Faceless God and the disconsolate When All Is Lost. A series of more compact tracks are included as well, but they obviously lack nothing in the way of instrumental complex