Section A is the ‘band’ project of one Torben Enevoldsen. I did not know this man until last week. He is a guitarist/songwriter from Denmark (I’m slowly developing a global CD-collection ladies and gentlemen!), who after doing a few instrumental albums decided to form a band with musicians he admired. Since the musical style is progmetal I did not know any of them either, although one could know Vandenplas, a German band out of which the drummer, Andreas Lill springs. If we are to believe Lion Music’s website, than this here is progmetal’s new super group. After pure disgust after hearing it for the first time, The Seventh Sign actually sounded quite alright to me after further inquiry. The artwork of the CD is the first thing that catches your eye. This was done by Thomas Ewerhard, whom you might know from previous work with Spock’s Beard (no not mister Spock’s actual beard. Absolutely beautiful. If they would still make vinyl and you’d hate the music you would still buy this record and just hang it on the wall to look at. The album, produced by Enevoldsen himself, also sounds quite beautiful, and by that I mean it has been produced so smooth they ought to have wrapped the CD in silk in stead of putting it in a plastic cover. Now, finally, I’m going to talk about the music. The first two songs (who are quite nice) trick you into thinking this is a metal record.

Songs three through eight still have metally influences, but they sound more like the Dire Straits trying on a heavy metal dress and vice versa. Section A sounds like something from the eighties. That heavy metal dress does provide the CD with really fast overproduced solo’s, five out of eight songs, the other three contain slower solo’s. Mister Enevoldsen does know how to play a guitar, that’s for sure. The drums are pretty good, with very able touches of double bass. Vocally I do think the lyrics tend to suck a bit (or just sometimes sound a little corny), but tonewise he’s good. The thing that stands out is that the songs are all too long. My god! Taking eight minutes for each song is just too much, unless you are Tool. In this case you feel like pressing ‘next’ the last three or two minutes of a song. Maybe it’s the eighties feel of the music, or maybe I’m an idiot, but I like this CD. It has good variety between songs. Songs sound like metal, and then change back to eighties poppy stuff, yet the transitions seem logical and sound very good. I can’t possibly give this album any less than a 7.5, because otherwise I would be cheating myself into not liking the music. Now, will it be 7.5 or 8? If possible I would give this album a 7.7, but it’s not, so it’s going to be a 7.5.