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Can this band do much better than this? From the late news apparently so, the way the recent Road of Bones has received the highest accolades all across the board. But, there is always a but, where else can you hear this monster of an epic by the name of Harvest of Souls?

Global Appraisal

For once let's start by the end, because it's the final and longer track that deserves the highlight here: what a musical roller-coaster this HoS is, 24 plus minutes with non-stopping ups and downs, highs and lows, fasts and slows!
The album is all excellent, don't get me wrong, a true apex of the so-called Neo-Prog genre, but the epic is a case apart ' a clever long developing song that carries you on a journey of emotions, the emotions that I so dearly look for in the progressive realm: one moment you are exalted, the next deeply moved, and then again uplifted in a climax of feeling and musical explosion.

I can't resist to make a parallel with my beloved 'Gates of Delirium' (you know what I'm talking about, don't you?) in form and substance alike, not to mention equal (very HIGH) pleasurability.

Goodies

The first notes immediately set the profound, prevailing somber tone which intensifies the whole emotional experience, even enhanced on repeated listens: I get back for more and indeed I keep getting more every time.

Peter Nicholls is in top form and takes the vocals to attain such a level of expressive symbiosis with the lyrics that make it really memorable and out-stand from the competition

Musicianship and production: highly professional and effective, a machine at full-speed-ahead.

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