Originally Posted by dooman
a few of Subterranean Masquerade's reviews, one band of hundreds on that site
"I will warn you all right from scratch: Subterranean Masquerade is different. You need an open mind to listen to this and fully appreciate every song on the album. I've been listening to the album for a few months and only now do I appreciate everything on it fully.
SubMasq have managed to blend jazz, progressive rock, psychedelic rock and elements of metal together to a diverse mixture that both soothes the mind but puts it to work as well.
It's unique, soothing, philosophical, everything fits.
While there appears to be a running theme of psychosis that the band utilizes, they manage to invoke feelings of euphoric and tranquil states, of the lighter side of insanity if you will. Indeed, at times it feels as though you are in a floating dream, a realm in which the shapes, colors and feelings float by, and suspend for a minute, before new ones sweep in to take their long forgotten place."