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Dimensions (+3) | 
| Creator: Believer
Label: Retroactive Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $14.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 305928
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 734923000723
EAN: 0734923000723
ASIN: B00079YHO4
Publication Date: 2005
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2004, Retroactive Records "With Dimensions, violinist Scott Laird became a full-fledged member. As a result, Dimensions utilizes beautiful classical music more than ever, much to the delight of fans. Fans also delighted in the fast and furious crashing and thrashing of Slayer-like speed metal, often slamming right into those classical arrangements... Believer embodied true musical genius. With Dimensions, the band would leave us with a genre bending thrash metal masterpiece." -Retroactive Records
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Believer does it again! April 19, 2006
TheMetalhead (Virginia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This, Believer's last cd, is nothing short of amazing. Its more technical than Sanity Obscure and has some Avant Garde elements. The Trilogy Of Knowledge is a 20+ minute song in 3 parts with violens and operatic singing mixed with the Thrash(like Dies Irae on Sanity Obscure).Its definatley one of the highlights of the album.This re-issue includes 3 bonus tracks wich are the worst part of the cd.They're live tracks but the sound is just horrendous.Other than that this re-isuue is well worth the price(and don't take to long to buy it cause there are only 1000 of them made!).
The Best Work That Believer Has To Offer March 2, 2006
Freeman (home)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After listening to this album, I at first did not know what to think. It wasn't as heavy as heavy as Extraction From Mortality and Sanity Obscure, but however, it was very melodic and without a doubt, the most technical of the three that Believer released. At first, I thought that Extraction was the best and Sanity Obscure was rushed, and that this album was beyond rushed, but after REALLY listening to it, I would say that this is their best work. Unfortunately, I cannot say which album I find to favor the most, but I will say that it is not Extraction From Mortality. Even though Extraction has my number one favorite Believer song called Shadow Of Death, The album itself is a let down compared to the later two.
Sanity Obscure is kind of between Extraction and Dimensions because Sanity obscure is very technical like Dimensions, and is Heavy/Head-banging like Extraction. Most people seem to favor that album the best, when I personally do not know what to think. I will say that I do find this masterpiece to CURRENTLY be my favorite since I haven't completely listened to Sanity Obscure like I did Dimensions.
Reguardless of the fact that this album is not as heavy as the other two nor do I think it was intended to be, it still delivers strongly to Thrash Metal, but more in an artwork type of way with the melody and technique used in it.
The best work is not always the favorite, which is why I am still confused as to what album is my favorite, but it doesn't change the FACT that this album is the bands best work. 10/10
Believer's best work, the best technical thrash album around February 6, 2007
Collin J. Anderson (Baltimore, MD USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album is ridiculously good. Alot of people refuse to listen to Believer because they have Christian lyrics, but those people are just idiots. Believer completely blew every single one of their secular counterparts (Atheist, Cynic, Death, Pestilence, etc.) out of the water with this release, and no progressive metal band came even close until Spastic Ink released "Ink Compatible" 11 years later, which is pretty equal with Dimensions in my book. The lyrics are incredibly intelligent (and most non-Christians that rip on them don't have any idea what Believer is even talking about half the time with Dimensions), the music is extremely technical and brilliant, and the production is perfect for this sort of release (I wouldn't change a single thing about the sound on this album). The crazy sound effects are still cool every time I hear them (and I've been listening to this album literally several times a week for years) and the gruff vocals are terrific. If you don't have this album and you claim to be a fan of progressive/technical thrash metal, your collection is a joke.
Reissue Of Lost Metal Masterpiece January 6, 2008
Joel Israel (Cedar City, UT United States)
When I found out that this long-lost experimental classical/thrash/technical metal album from the late '80s was available, I was overjoyed. Believer were one of the most original and unusual metal bands from the first wave of metal, and certainly deserve the recognition which they never recieved.
"Dimensions" is a conept album of sorts; a metaphysical musing on the human condition and mankind's divine godlike potential, and is also laced with classically-influenced orchestral violin and operatic vocals (I'm not being allegorical, but quite literal), which guaranteed it's relegation to obscure cult status. The other side of the coin is that theis album is full of unbelievably (no pun intended) heavy Slayer-meets Death riffs and complex, technical metal interludes and solos, at a time when most metal bands were simply copying each other. Completely original, intelligent and thought-provoking. Thinking man's metal far ahead of it's time. Pick it up before its gone!
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