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jackhammer · 07-21-2008, 04:51 PM

The whole sube genre 'Pomp Rock' was created for this Midlands 5 piece. Rodney Matthews art. Huge keyboard led riffs. Lyrics straight out of a Tolkien novel.. and I love them. They have made some damn fine Rock classics in their time: 'The Spirit', 'Soldier Of The Line', 'How Far Jerusalem' and 'One Step Away'. I know it is supposed to be one album only-apologies!

Even the cover is awful . The production has a distinctly 80's fairlight drum sound and there are far too many ideas going on; in what is the (apparently) simple world of Metal. Listen again. One of the most intelligent and multi layered Metal releases with Musical dexterity matched by cerebral content..even if Geoff Tate does have an annoying falsetto!

A prog rock album hiding under the guise of a Britpop classic. Mansun mixed twisted time changes, Tom Baker narration and indeed a concept album 20 years past it's sell by date. Guess what? It is fucking ace and discharged it's musical superiority over many a 90's band.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	The whole sube genre 'Pomp Rock' was created for this Midlands 5 piece. Rodney Matthews art. Huge keyboard led riffs. Lyrics straight out of a Tolkien novel.. and I love them. They have made some damn fine Rock classics in their time: 'The Spirit', 'Soldier Of The Line', 'How Far Jerusalem' and 'One Step Away'. I know it is supposed to be one album only-apologies! Even the cover is awful . The production has a distinctly 80's fairlight drum sound and there are far too many ideas going on; in what is the (apparently) simple world of Metal. Listen again. One of the most intelligent and multi layered Metal releases with Musical dexterity matched by cerebral content..even if Geoff Tate does have an annoying falsetto! A prog rock album hiding under the guise of a Britpop classic. Mansun mixed twisted time changes, Tom Baker narration and indeed a concept album 20 years past it's sell by date. Guess what? It is fucking ace and discharged it's musical superiority over many a 90's band. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”