One Hour By the Concrete Lake

Continuing the pain of salvation extravaganza, with their second album, the also conceptual One Hour by the Concrete Lake.



First as always the concept : A man working in a weapon factory starts questionning the impact of his work (duh) on the world, travels and sees the disaster made by his guns and the big machine (industrial capitalism as its best) on his fellow men and the nature, ending his trip by the lake Karachay, a nuclear dump that was sealed with concrete and which is one of the most radioactive place on earth... one hour by it and a adult get a lethal dose of radiation....

Musically, with the arrival of johann Hallgren, PoS continue its venture in prog metal but in a less metal way with many syncopic rythms and voice modulations, chorus, chants and such. Daniel Gildenlow makes even the band sounds a bit like Enchant on some tracks and the album flows seamslessy but without a lot of high peaks.

Through its theme and music, 1HbtCL is still an album coming out of youth. the theme is mature yet as a lot of naïveté in it and the music still is searching itself a bit... no wonder the breakthrough would be made with teh next one...but yet a nice album with a strong human and ecological concept that helps define the concerns of the band leader.