Rocktopia: Toxic Smile - 'I'm Your Saviour' - CD Review

A Rocktopia / Fireworks Magazine album review by Steven Reid: Six years have passed since 'RetroTox Forte', which was the last full length effort from Germany's Toxic Smile. In the mean time the band have released a pair of DVDs and with an EP also seeing the light of day in 2009, however with their mix of seventies prog rock styling and a more riff-based prog metal outlook, the finely honed 'I'm Your Saviour' sees the band back with a bang. The usual prog rock/metal bench marks are reverentially nodded to, with everyone from Yes, Genesis, Spock's Beard and Dream Theater being brought to mind at times, but the maturity and craft of the nine songs that make up this hour long album ensures that 'I'm Your Saviour' never falls into the copyist trap. http://ping.fm/VU5Ky