GOOD APOLLO, I'M BURNING STAR IV, VOLUME ONE - FROM FEAR THROUGH THE EYES OF MADNESS

The album is basically split into 2 parts. The first half is highlighted by the BRILLIANT (my favorite opening ten minutes to ANY album) threesome of Keeping The Blade/Always & Never/Welcome Home. Ten Speed (Of God's Blood And Burial) and The Suffering are two very good, radio-friendly rock songs with a prog flavor to them. Apollo I: The Writing Writer is the opening part to an epic to be continued later and it's probably the best song on the first half. Other highlights include Wake Up and Mother May I, and the rest are great in the album's context.

This is not the reason I give this album 5 stars, however. No, that would be the epic, 4 part Willing Well suite, which is truly the high point creatively for the band so far. Epic, moving, technically brilliant.... a wonderful, top-notch prog piece that rivals anything I've heard from any progressive band. 30 minutes of musical bliss that anyone with a interest in prog should hear.

Side note: this is where they shove aside anything having to do with "emo", so don't let that ridiculous reputation they picked up deter you from listening to this masterpiece.

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