Year : 2015
Style : Progressive Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 161 mb
Info:
No More Pain is a hard rocking four piece from New Jersey,concentrated as a true progressive rock arrangement with a grungy epicenter.No More Pain is from New Jersey with Mike ROMAN (guitar, vocals), Dan RAINONE ( drums,vocals), John MORONEY (bass) and Matt MCDERMOTT (keyboards, vocals). Their music is symphonic progressive rock with a grungy epicenter. Their music can be describe as a mellow soundscape, followed by a direct kick to the face, and are still to this day : "The only band preferred by both God and Satan". No More Pain stands on the line drawn in the sand between rock and progressive, in the sweet spot where their music captures both the listeners ears and minds. You can hear shades of ECHOLYN, KANSAS and DREAM THEATER in their music.They released their second album "Post Human Condition" in 2015. The first album "Debate and Rhyme" was released in 2012.
Album:
The Post-Human Condition, the second release from the group No More Pain, is pretty intent on letting you know you’ll have to be more engaged than you ordinarily would. The cover of the release shows an omniscient computer monitor in the shy with a demonic eye surveying humans tumbling out of it, slowly evolving into sheep as they fall. The narrative, while not performed in broad, rock-opera strokes, does relate to the last “untethered” man who awakes in a world overrun by technology. You probably couldn’t get more album-oriented than that in the digital age. (Bonus points for irony because you’re reading this review on your cellphone or computer.The band No More Pain has a long reach into the past as far as its influences are concerned. At one moment you might catch some Gabriel-era keyboard flourishes, or a Floyd groove, or a Kansas vibe, but then things swing into a heavy, Dream Theater sort of form. These touchstones never linger for too long, and never get in the way of the music, even as it extols its virtues. More importantly, even though there are longer songs to be found on the disc, there’s apparent compositional control taking place as well. In English: the songs are long when they need to be, and not because that’s what the genre demands.That said, the CD concludes with the multi-part “The Network.” I’m hesitant to describe it as an “epic,” which has lately become dirty code for “just a really long pastiche of songs with no real reason for being so long.” In fact, each section of The Post-Human Condition has a sense of purpose, and things aren’t being tossed in merely to make things longer. The listener feels that there’s a reason for it all to be there.And that reason is, in part, a high level of musicianship. If potential listeners are turned off by that, and are more inclined for straight riff-rock styled music, this is not the CD for them. The band has seen a few internal changes since the recording of the CD, but the captured collaboration of Mike Roman (vocals, guitar), Matt McDermott (keyboards), John Moroney (bass), and Dan Rainone (drums) sounds far more accomplished than two CDs would presume to say. Even in the heavier portions, the songs never stop being melodic, even hooky.Of course it isn’t for everyone, especially for those who start to get antsy when the track starts nearing the 3-and-a-half minute mark. But for anyone who required proof that there’s still a need and place for the album format, it has been delivered with The Post-Human Condition.
Line-Up:
Mike Roman: Guitar, Vocals
Dan Rainone: Drums, Vocals
John Moroney: Bass
Matt McDermott: Keyboards, Vocals
Tracklist:
01. Nascency (4:09)
02. All As One (4:44)
03. Behold The Screen (6:03)
04. The Spiral (5:06)
05. Shrine Of Pearl (5:40)
06. God In The Glass (5:04)
07. Bleed (10:25)
08. Binary Annihilation Glitch (4:48)
09. Mountains Of The Sky (10:12)
10. Cosmic Trigger (4:11)
11. The Network (17:28)
I. World, Wide, Webb
II. A Watchful Eye
III. Quanta (Instrumental)
IV. Sphere Of Influence
V. Useful Oblivion
VI. Heads Down
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