RESISTANCE

From the very first song, this album hits you in all the right prog places. It has harder sounding pieces like 'A Missle' and 'Rise', influence inspired songs like 'The Great Spirit Way' and very IQ sounding pieces like 'Shallow Bay' and 'Fallout'. There is a ballad 'If Anything' which is quite nice but ends with church organs. It does break up the first part of the album with the string of epics that follow. The only misstep is 'Alampandria', which others have said they like, but I feel is just filler. At 3:47 on a double CD, it is not enough to downgrade my 5-star rating.