Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe CD

Holographic Universe Music

List Price	$15.98 (You save $2.23)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Heavy Metal, Death Metal
Label	Nuclear Blast
Orig Year	2008
All Time Sales Rank	19714
CD Universe Part number	7687574
Catalog number	12095
Discs	1
Release Date	Jul 08, 2008
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Engineer	Jonas Kjellgren
Personnel	Per Nilsson - guitar, guitars Christian -lvestam - vocals Jonas Kjellgren Henrik Ohlsson - drums Kenneth Seil - bass guitar Christian Alverstam

Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe Songs

	1.	Morphogenesis
	2.	Timewave Zero
	3.	Quantumbleaper
	4.	Artificial Sun Projection
	5.	Missing Coordinates, The
	6.	Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
	7.	Fear Catalyst
	8.	Trapezoid
	9.	Prism and Gate
	10.	Holographic Universe
	11.	Three-Dimensional Shadow, The
	12.	Ghost Prototype II - Deus Ex Machina

Holographic Universe Music Review

Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars) 4.5 stars

5 stars Seriously.
An insanely talented group. I love the guitar riffs and vocals, every song on this album is a hit, and their lyrics are very meaningful and poetic. This is melodic death metal at its best people! And if you loved "Pitch Black Progress" from 2006, you will find that this band improved even more!
Submitted by SwiftBlade8420 (NYC, USA)
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5 stars I Never new Melodic Death Meatal Could Be This Beautifull
This album is jam packed with the most complex guitar rithems, leads and solos. I highley recomend this album.
Submitted by conniemotter (Hudson, Oh)
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4 stars Not their strongest effort but good
Scar Symmetry is an extremely talented band and has thus far created some of the best Melodic Death albums this side of the millennium. Unfortunately, it seems SS has been sliding down the same slope many Melodic Death do as they progress, a slide toward the ever more melodic. Their first album's vocals and riffs were Death accented by Melodic. Their second was more or less an even split now with Holographic Universe the roles have switched to having the melodic the focus and death the accent. Again not that SS does't do both well, I just favor their original disposition.
Submitted by metalmachine27 (California, USA)
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4 stars great album
if you like the previous works from scar symmetry then you will also love this one. Great musicianship,great riffs and choruses,and great vocals a little bit cleaner than the previous albums,but they also have kept the brutal ones.Overall a great effort!
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