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Scott Mosher - Deep Horizon review



Reviewer:
8.0
Band: Scott Mosher
Album: Deep Horizon
Style: Progressive metal
Release date: April 2006


01. Deep Horizon
02. The Breaking Point
03. A Path Of Pride
04. Light Years
05. In Visible Darkness
06. Turning Away
07. Re-Engineering The Mind
08. Falling Down
09. Zero Hour
10. The Space Between Lives

Between Pink Floyd Ayreon and Dream Theater, Scott Mosher is a singular artist of the American Progressive Metal scene. His last album "Inferno" was already a really cool surprise for me but let me tell you, if you like ambient Progressive music of course, that his new one, "Deep Horizon", is a really beautiful confirmation of his enormous talent. You'll have to check this one my Prog mates?

Even if Scott plays Progressive music, you all need to know first that his music is not especially something fast and extremely technical. Actually it's more something in the vein of Ayreon or Ambeon if you see what I mean. With a lot of electronic sounds produced by Keyboards, there is a really nice futuristic general ambiance on this "Deep Horizon". This is cool because even if the structures or each songs are complex, you'll never be bored by some "intellectual" approaches in the music. This is not a musical demonstration and with "Deep Horizon" this is more a matter of ambiance before anything else.

This album is maybe not so easy of access at first, I mean that the songs are slow and doesn't sound like some radio hits in general, but the music is deep and the more you'll listen to the CD, the more you'll find new things and the more you'll be attracted by the release. The beautiful, and a bit sad, voice of Scott Oliva fits perfectly with the dark music of the album and gives something deep and powerful to the general ambiance of the CD.

Also, I must say that I find that this album is a lot more personal but also that its compositions are a lot more interesting than the ones of the precedent CD, I must add too that the production is also really better on "Deep Horizon". Artwork like, booklet or music recording are just perfect so I don't see why you couldn't be able to like and enjoy the music of this release?

I love the background music of bands like Ayreon so it wasn't so hard for me to love the new album of Scott Mosher but anyway, "Deep Horizon" is just a really beautiful album of Progressive Metal and I'm quite sure that the fans of the style will love its really deep music. One more time Scott Mosher and his mate Scott Oliva produced a really good album and I really hope that they will find the success that they deserve. "Deep Horizon" is just a nice piece of ambient progressive music?


Rating breakdown
Performance: 7
Songwriting: 8
Originality: 8
Production: 8

Written by Jeff | 09.07.2006





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