Dissident Saint - The Rise
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Name: Dissident Saint Album: The Rise Released: September 27, 2007 Members: Sergey Perunov - vocals Ilya Maximenko - guitars Dimitry Chebanov - drums Andrei Zaretski - keyboard Alon Shenfield - bass Gera Kisselman - guitars Website: www.dissidentsaint.com |
I think the only harder thing than reviewing a band that you have a schoolgirl crush on, is reviewing a band where one of the members is someone you see at work every day (or… every other day during the school year.) At the same time, I asked for it, so I guess it’s my own fault. *Sigh* And because I can hear the millions of people wondering who on earth in the band I work with… I work with Ilya. There. Happy?
So Ilya’s told me about a thousand times that his band is Progressive Rock. Well, the band’s Myspace says Metal & Progressive. iTunes told me nothing, so I had to put in Progressive Rock all on my own. I had my friend Brandon describe Progressive Rock as really technical music that’s a cross between rock, and classical or opera depending on how the songs are written. I’m now throughly confused although I can’t disagree with any of it.
When my friend B told me that progressive meant that technical and really hard to play, he wasn’t joking. Randomly I’ll be listening to a song and be thinking “Goddamn, does this guy have 17 fingers on one hand or something?” Anyways, out of everything, I think the vocals stand out the most to me because it’s the only part of music that I can understand the best, and I swear the vocalist has had opera-singing training or something similar. And I think I don’t hear enough keyboards in songs anymore, I can’t figure out exactly what to make of them because they can sound so different every time. Hmm…
I think I have to see Dissident saint live on stage to really experience the music properly. Thankfully they’re playing soon because I’ve been bothering Ilya for a show date I think for the past six months at least by now, ever since I found out he was in a band. Besides that I’ve been enjoying hearing The Rise in my car, because… why not. My stereo system in my car has been complimented for being pretty good.
Dissident Saint has scheduled two shows in the coming few weeks.
October 20, 2007 - Reverb at the Supernova Battle of the Bands
November 4, 2007 - The Kathedral for the official release party for The Rise
Go and say hi. And see if any of them will give you an autograph. Bonus points if it’s on a body part!
P.S. The riffs? Epic. 
