Average Rating: 1
Demo Title: Tales from the Mobius Strip
Band Members: Kelly Conlon, Denis J. Lanza, Kario Zentradi, Kevin Hammer, and Libor Hadrava.
Location: Boston, MA
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Band Name: Infinity Minus One
Demo Title: Tales from the Mobius Strip Band Members: Kelly Conlon, Denis J. Lanza, Kario Zentradi, Kevin Hammer, and Libor Hadrava. Location: Boston, MA |
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Snake's Review:
Infinity Minus One hails from Boston, MA, and I am sure all the locals are very proud of their boys, but these guys are more image then substance. From the cheesy photo glossy included in their press kit to them pretending to be on a label - having your songs on Mp3.com does not count as being a signed act. The demo packaging goes so far as to have note on the CD that it is to be filed under metal, very misleading! I don't think you will be seeing this on the shelves of any music stores. Worse yet, this demo is very far away from being metal. This is more of a soft rock album with Rush influences. The press kit says these guys are Dream Theater on steroids; ha, ha!!! Seriously, frilly fluffy music on steroids makes for even frillier fluff. Fans of Jan Hammer might want to break out their pastel Miami Vice jackets and do some pseudo ass kicking to this laughable four track demo. All these poor boys want to do is sell their image as corporate whores, so that they can in fact get their crappy music on to a soundtrack of Miami Vice II: Dead in the Waters.Well, no matter how bad the subject, I am expected to listen to everything I receive, so here comes the meat grinder. Infinity Minus One opens "At the Doorway of Existence" with a familiar synthesizer sequence, hammering guitar riffs, and drums sounding like they were played inside a cardboard box. Seemingly lacking in originality, the guitar rhythms play for a few bars repetitively then switch to a slightly altered variation, not very creative, but works well for the attention span challenged. Compounding matters, the vocals have problems staying in key and keeping up with the time signature. Also, digital enhancements are used on the vocals in attempts to make them sound better, though the singer has quite a high end vocal range of his own. "Face to Face" starts with an underdeveloped Pink Floydish guitar intro, slow piano chords, and a symphonic atmosphere. The vocals seem out of place again, and straining to fit in the homogenized song structure. This track suffers from poor guitar and bass production, and the infamous cardboard drums. The combination of the vocals and poor production makes it very difficult to listen to. On a positive, the guitars do hold their own with a certain sense of style. "Independence Day" needed to be rehearsed a few more times before it was put to the mp3 format. The music is very forced and painful to listen to. We have a pattern of suckiness here. An over the top synthesizer solo in the middle of this steroid metal album left me sick to my stomach. There are a few moments of Steve Vai worship to be found here, but Vai is a god, and Infinity Minus One is short a six pack when it comes to making mind-bending fluid psychedelic noodlings. Nothing special is found on this instrumental blunder. I am one track away from getting this non-metal crap out of my CD player. Here is "Architectural Martyr," which actually has one chorus pointing to Queensryche. For everything the Minus One crew does right, there is so much else around it that is plain awful and lacking in so many ways. We have missed cues, out of tune vocals, and stuttering guitar riffs that don't know when to start - they should not have started in the first place.
Bottom line: this band has an infinite way to go before they are in league with Queensryche, Steve Vai, and Dream Theater levels of professional musicianship. However, I don't think these guys care about that. The music only has to be good enough for the new Jan-Michael Vincent movie disaster. This demo was an attempt to be complex and sophisticated, but the house of cards collapsed under the pressure. What bothers me most about this album is not the feigning to make good music, rather the results were mediocre. For having potential to make something better, but not wanting to, Infinity Minus One earns 1 Skull. If you want to check them out, good luck - their official band link was not working at the time this review was written, however the loop that keeps you on their website was. I would not have expected more from a band wanting to make a career out of selling their music for TV movie soundtracks.
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