PAIN OF SALVATION — 12:5

PAIN OF SALVATION

12:5 (2004)

Label: InsideOut Music/Soyuz
★★★★ 8.5/10
By Scorpio

Track Listing

  1. Genesis: I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. V
  6. Genesister: Winning A War T5
  7. Reconciliation T5
  8. Dryad Of The Woods T5
  9. Oblivion Ocean T5
  10. Undertow T5
  11. Chinsling T5
  12. Genesinister: VI
  13. VII
  14. VIII
  15. IX
  16. X

This time we have an hour-long acoustic concert by the excellent rock band PAIN OF SALVATION. The performance consists of three parts — three books: Genesis, Genesister, and Genesinister. The first and third don't have track titles in the conventional sense — they're simply numbered with Roman numerals I-V and VI-X respectively, and between them come the songs of the second part, each bearing T5 at the end of its title.

An hour of light, pleasant music. Like a gentle breeze caressing the face of someone standing on a seashore on a fine evening, so do the band's compositions caress the ear. It's truly impossible to capture this in words — you simply have to hear it. I'm confident you'll enjoy the progressive rock of PAIN OF SALVATION.