Memory Garden

Verdict of Posterity (Metal Blade)
by Martin Popoff

Pure delight for fans of progressive metal, a genre rapidly growing in authority and quality, Memory Garden are a Swedish phenom who mix their convolution with a detectable trace of doom via Memento Mori (Mike Wead produces). Vocally, Stefan Berglund is clear and mid-range for the genre, dramatically delivering tales of millennial anxiety over dark, slow, complicated beats that are the antithesis to the flipside of the genre, Helloween and their ilk. Record II after a debut called Tides.
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