Earthbound (2005)

Maybe it's just my musical taste changed, but it seems that I don't like the heros of shred guitar anymore. All these Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen... Yes, they are true masters of guitar, but the kind of music they perform is definitely not what I like to listen now. And this album by Lars Eric Mattsson only confirms this my point of view. "Earthbound" is an album representing quite unvaried instrumental music, which is a kind of hard rock with pronouncedly heavy rhythm section and rapid guitar soloing. Lars Eric Mattsson is certainly excellent musician and his skills of playing guitar are high, but anyway I listened to this album without the great pleasure. Music is not only technics, and I consider that this kind of music loses a great part of melodiousness just because such talented musicians as Lars Eric Mattsson want to show how great technically they are and forget about music. And "Earthbound" is a sample of this. Unfortunately.