Album Review

Tempus Fusion - To End It AllTempus Fusion – To End It All

Thinking about it, the genre name “Progressive” anything has been a bit of a mistake in my eyes, seeing as progressive music started with bands trying to push the boundaries of the standard musical boundaries, but now bands are known as progressive bands even if they haven’t really done anything new or exciting just because their time signatures are different to 4/4. Band’s like Dream Theater, Mudvayne, Static-X and Tool are a few who in very different ways pushed to boundaries of their styles. So rant over now and what I’m facing is another dubbed progressive metal band who’s either going to sink in the mediocre ocean or sail down the stream of success, there’s no middle ground anymore with this kind of competition.

I’ve found this whole album a very enjoyable experience in all fairness, I mean the whole progressive genre as a whole does want you to give a large chunk of your life to it with the length of its tracks and this is no exception with a duration of 57 minutes but I have found the whole thing a pleasant experience. The 3 part title track “To End it All” has a wide variety of techniques and style changes, some of which take me back to the days of my Forever Never obsession, they had a similar thing going on except where Tempus Fusion has a dark atmospheric attribute weaving through it all Forever Never’s was more of an upbeat feel good vibe, the vocals are extremely close to being deemed as being the exact same person even though it isn’t.

Seeing as the day Forever Never split up I was beyond heartbroken this has actually been an extremely exciting surprise. Much like a love deprived bitter younger sibling to them but that’s really working out well for them in terms of musical style. It isn’t going to be the greatest thing you’ve ever listened to in your life but for 57 minutes you can enjoy some really aggressive yet soothing tracks which in my eyes is a pretty great way to spent an hour of the day and to answer my starting point they’ve not sank, I believe they’ve started their course down the stream.

3.5/5

Review by James Webb

 Band Members

Tim Goatham
Max Pharnam
David Stanton
Anthony Quinn
James Smith
 Track Listing
1. As We March to the Fields of War
2. Abandon All Hope
3. The Baying of the Wolf
4. To End It All I
5. To End It All II
6. To End It All III
7. This Automated Nightmare
8. Mnemonic
9. The Predators Are Here
 Band Related Links
Tempus Fusion Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?