Band:	Prisma
Album:	Collusion
Style:	Progressive metal
Release date:	January 2008

01. Paragon
02. Feeling Of Guiltiness
03. Over Bodies And Cases
04. Head Trip
05. Maslow
06. Glide In
07. Inner Circulation
08. Normal State
09. Passion - The Highest Necessity
10. Sield Land
11. Genius
12. Perseverance

Are we in front of the new European Tool? That's the question my friends because when you'll listen to the first album of Prisma, a band from Switzerland, you'll certainly have this feeling. "Collusion" is not a disappointing release, at the opposite this album is full of good songs but damn this is really similar to the American masters of Alternative Metal and on a side that's a bit disturbing?

The music of Prisma is a nice mix of melancholic music with in addition some cool groovy alternative tunes. All in all, that's right, the music that you'll find on "Collision" is really similar to the one of Tool, the songs are complex with some strong bass lines and a lot of dark melodies. It's not so depressive though and never lack of rhythm even if these rhythms are really complex in general with some good breaks and "jazzy" drums. The band doesn't play something original, I mean that it sounds too much like Tool to be original but of course this is not something that you can listen to everyday too, this is not Power Metal or Gothenburg Death Metal if you see what I mean. It's a bit sad that you'll only "hear" Tool when you'll listen to "Collision" because I can tell you that the songs are great (really) and that our guys from Switzerland are good musicians (I particularly like the voice of Michael Luginbuehl).

The first album of Prisma is full of nice deep songs and its production is perfect. Really there is nothing to say against this band except that they're too much into Tool and that it's impossible to see a real difference between their music and the one of the Americans. It shouldn't be problematic if, in the future, the band find a way to write some songs a bit more personal but right now even if I say one more time that "Collision" is a good album, it's simply look too much like a copycat than anything else and the fans of Tool like the Metalheads in general will regret it.

What do we have here? Well, we have a good album with great songs like "Head Trip" or "Paragon" (among many others) but the frontier between the main influence of the combo and its own music is not big enough to be "invisible". Prisma is a good band let's hope that they will find a way to write a more personal music and it should perfectly work. "Collision" is recommended to all the people who like Tool if of course they can accept that Prisma is a band influenced by their favourite combo and that their music is really similar to the one fo the combo from Los Angeles. Now, you know what to do... or not...