Vanden Plas - Far Off Grace review
| Band: | Vanden Plas |
| Album: | Far Off Grace |
| Style: | Power metal, Progressive metal |
| Release date: | 1999 |
| A review by: | Dream Taster |
01. I Can See
02. Far Off Grace
03. Into The Sun
04. Where Is The Man
05. Iodic Rain
06. I Don't Miss You
07. Inside Of Your Head
08. Fields Of Hope
09. I'm In You
10. Kiss Of Death [Dokken cover] [European bonus]
11. Shape Of My Heart [Sting cover] [2004 reissue bonus]
Some people will tell you one day that you don't have to buy a CD for its artwork. For once, don't listen to them! I have bought 'Far Off Grace' for its good-looking presentation without knowing anything about the band and it's one of my favorite bands since the first time I've listen to this album. Seriously, it was a chance that I bought 'Far Off Grace' because it has made me discover the true face of music. This unique mix between Dream Theater's progressive style and heavy metal riffs you can't forget, that's what is the music played by Vanden Plas!
Reading the documentation of the album, I realize that Vanden Plas were German and it was surprising for me, as well-known German bands are usually specialized in power or true metal. But Vanden Plas style, which can be called heavy prog metal, is out of the standards. Just listen once to 'Into The Sun' and you will understand. Beginning with a powerful song 'I Can See', this album is full of pure musical jewels. The eponym song 'Far Off Grace' is incredibly beautiful but 'Where Is The Man' is surely one of my favorite song on this album. If you like more heavy style, go to track seven! 'Inside Of Your Head' has a title that is absolutely true. Finally, the strange lyrics of 'I Don't Miss You' and 'I'm In You' would let you weird minded.
See, 'Far Off Grace' is not only a very good album, it has its own atmosphere that includes different kinds of songs from pure heavy to progressive, with beautiful ballads. Unique.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 9 |
| Production: | 8 |
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Written on 25.08.2003 by
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| RaduP CertifiedHipster Staff Posts: 9027  |
Ah, so this is the first even MS review?
---- Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking One day there will be no heart at all?
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| Dream Taster The Enemy Within Staff Posts: 1337  |
Written by RaduP on 11.09.2018 at 17:14 Almost. Not the first ever MS review, but the oldest one that is still up (the previous reviewing staff requested to delete a few older reviews as they were leaving).
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| RaduP CertifiedHipster Staff Posts: 9027 |
Written by Dream Taster on 15.10.2018 at 00:16 why?
---- Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking One day there will be no heart at all?
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| Dream Taster The Enemy Within Staff Posts: 1337 |
Written by RaduP on 15.10.2018 at 21:19 Because they wished to publish them on another site at the time. And the fact that they were written in even more broken English than mine, I figured it would be better off to relaunch the site without those reviews anyway. There were only a few that got deleted, maybe like 5 or so.
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| RaduP CertifiedHipster Staff Posts: 9027 |
Written by Dream Taster on 17.10.2018 at 16:32 Regardless, this is still a nice piece of MS history. Hard to believe this was more that 15 years ago. And that you're still around and active too.
---- Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking One day there will be no heart at all?
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| Milena gloom cookie Staff Posts: 4603  |
Written by RaduP on 17.10.2018 at 20:33 It's cool how this was considered a great album cover at the time too 
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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| RaduP CertifiedHipster Staff Posts: 9027 |
Written by Milena on 18.10.2018 at 13:53 God bless the hindsight we have now In 15 years we'll think Mirror Reaper has a kitch cover
---- Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking One day there will be no heart at all?
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