The Perfect Element

Again and again continuing the pain of salvation marathon with the break-through album The perfect element part 1.

Again, a strong concept at first, the lives of two children (one male one female) who have been abused as children and how they meet and deal with thisn as dysfunctional people.
So of course it is not a very joyful concept and the music, where PoS finally gets its style as a syncopic, multi vocal progressive metal, really helps gets in the mood of the heavy oriented and numerous lyrics that course through the (as usual) beautifully design booklet. (I must stress that the physical CD is as much part of the concept as the rest of the lyrics and music-all supervised by Daniel Gildenlöw)

The album as a strong debut with the songs used, in the flesh and of course ever favorite dark and gloomy ashes before hitting a small ventre-mou in the middle of the album before the dark finale.
Even if all the songs are not up to the standard of the blessed trilogy that starts the record, the overall quality of the album made it possible to PoS to finally break and get known to -if not the world- at least the progressive and metal music world, what some in the old days could have called a chef d'oeuvre. Maybe not as perfect as the said element but really of notice.

Definitly worth checking out.