Re-recorded albums are very big issues and I've been worried what'll come since this band first announced the re-release of one of their best albums. But since I've been listening to Sonata for like 5 years and it's going on, so I patiently wait for the moment when it'll come.
And it came and I am truly disappointed. Because the style of Pariahish mixing is really off the regular basics and still Sonata follows it and doesn't see what mistakes it contains. The guitar in My
Land or
Full Moon sounds like they've just recorded a sample of some kind of demo, Tony as a singer sounds really bored as if he didn't want to re-record this and not to mention the keyboards, which sound like they're lost somewhere in the eternal "nothing".
Seriously, where is the passion, the melodic style and the colorful variety that guys have brought to those great albums like
Unia or
The Days of Grays? I mean - this IS just a re-record, but it is still counted as a full-released album, so it should have some variety and meaning. The album as a whole sounds just like a progressive one-way trip, where you notice just bare mistakes.
But as one proverb says: "Everything bad can be for something good." Here it has one good thing as well. I mean - re-recording the album itself isn't that hard, but the harder part is to give it that passion, energy and variability so the listener can enjoy it and rate it the greatest way possible. But this re-recording is something like: "Hey, we'll just record it and put the "Pariahish" style of mixing and production, don't worry, some of those will sell and some of our real fans, who like Pariah, will like this as well, who doesn't enjoy our newer albums, their mistake."
That's not the way how it should work. So this re-record is a big example of how it should not be done.
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