The Blueprint Dives

by Extol

The Blueprint Dives cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 February 2005
  • Label: Century Media
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 53:33
  • Community rating: 3.3/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Tue Madsen, David Husvik, Anders Salomon Lidal, Century Media, B酶rge Finstad, David Wallumr酶d, Peter Espevoll, John Robert Mj氓land

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Significantly altering their earlier extreme metal trajectory, 'The Blueprint Dives' embraces a vastly more melodic, heavily alternative rock-tinged approach to progressive metal. The band continues to utilize complex song structures and uncommon time signatures while emphasizing prominently clean vocal melodies. It resulted in a highly polarizing but critically lauded stylistic reinvention heavily informed by Christian lyrical themes.

Genres

Descriptors: uncommon-time-signatures, christian, complex

Tracklist

  1. Gloriana (3:26)
  2. Soul Deprived (3:26)
  3. In Reversal (5:37)
  4. Pearl (2:55)
  5. From the Everyday Mountain Top (3:46)
  6. Another Adam's Escape (4:36)
  7. The Things I Found (6:24)
  8. Lost In Dismay (5:14)
  9. Essence (3:43)
  10. Void (5:38)
  11. The Death Sedative (4:55)
  12. Riding for a Fall (3:47)

Credits

  • Tor Magne Glidje - guitar [electric], acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Ole Halvard Sveen - guitar [electric], acoustic guitar, vocals, electric guitar, vocal
  • Peter Espevoll - vocals, acoustic guitar
  • David Wallumr酶d - piano, electric piano [rhodes]
  • Magnus Westgaard - bass [upright]
  • Tue Madsen - mastered by, mixed by, mastering
  • B酶rge Finstad - engineer, recorded by
  • Rolf Anders Storset - photography by [band photos by], photography
  • Century Media - art direction

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