Mad Artwork (Sweden) - heavy prog candidate?

Yeah, I reckon Heavy Prog is definitely the place to start things off - it's either there or Eclectic Prog as I see it (or hear it). Great find!! 

There are just three ratings there so far for the 'I Still Breathe' album (two of which are actually glowing reviews, one of which is by Olav himself, who always gives us a very detailed, thorough and highly professional account of everything he is given to review). There are also just 85 views at the moment of this thread, which is a shame.

Yes indeed, Mad Artwork are hardly known at all in the prog world at the moment...and that is just a dreadful state of affairs imho considering the effort and resources the band put into creating this great album, and the total lack of support they received from their record label in promoting it.

Let me say here again - this is superb stuff...probably as good a Heavy Prog album as I have heard anywhere in the last few years...and the quite excellent music is complemented by a female singer who has one of the best voices I have heard anywhere in the last few years too. What more could You want!!

The album is back on spotify now (and has been for quite a while): https://open.spotify.com/album/2NFyT38asbe9LjdbRfpytc, and all the live videos from the album release show are on YouTube (the 'Silence of the Free' video posted by Olav above is for a song isn't actually included on the album, but is just as good as the four quite lengthy tracks that are on there - averaging around the 10 minute mark).

The audio and visual quality of these live clips is quite excellent - as good as the studio versions in many respects - and anyone who enjoys Heavy Prog of any kind, never mind the much less common female fronted variation of it, will not be disappointed by this music.

I strongly recommend that you take a listen - either on YouTube or spotify.  The band are working on a much anticipated follow-up, and deserve far more love and support than they have thus far received.

More info at http://madartwork.com/, where you will find the embedded spotify player, and four of the five live videos conveniently placed for your enjoyment.

The fifth video (actually the 1st song on the album, and the longest song of the four) is here:

I'm no good at writing reviews myself, but if a few more reviews on their page were forthcoming from those at are good at it, that would be the very least the band deserve for the effort they put into creating and delivering this really great album (as well as the regular five-piece band, four really top-notch guest musicians were involved in the making of it - two of whom also took part in the live album release show from which the video clips are taken).

 

If anyone wants to view them as an automatic playlist, use the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQ3ZoovpyM&index=5&list=UU3W1XHNG7narRPTv2LmrGrQ They are videos 5-9, and will play in sequence. All are equally excellent! Can't wait for the follow up!!