THE WHIRLWIND

first off i want to say that i am a huge transatlantic fan and am also a huge fan of all 4 of the individual bands these guys are from(aside from marillion).With this album it took me about 3 listens to reall "get" it, and probably about 5 to really realize just how incredibly awesome it was....and what do you expect from a 78 minute piece of prog...it takes quite some time to digest...but once you have fully digested this album what a gem it is indeed!!...this is just as good as smpt:e and bridge, but in a slightly different way...it is more epic and more diverse in terms of the different inputs and styles put into the mix...and the fact that it was made in only some days is beyond impressive and its not like even saying o its awesome cause they made this in so many days....this would be a master work if it was made in a year, but still its completely impressive that they always pull of these masterpieces with ease....and its no surprise they are all musical gods and musical genius's in their respective bands, but i just didnt expect this album to be that good....with neal morse's lifeline's dissapointment, black clouds and silver lingings dissappointment and the somewhat of a dissapointment of sum of no evil i thought this would prbably be a flawed work, but it's PERFECT!!. in every way... from the bone chilling overture...the catchy melodies that are so memorable like a man can feel and out of the night...by the way i hated out of the night when i forst heard it...it just GREW on me...rose colored glasses is a perfect ballad with some poweful progresive moments...roin's evermore is alos impressive and i just love set us free...the music is awesome and the vocal melodies are great ....and portnoy sounds so cool here...pieces of heaven is an awesome odd time signatured proggy piece that is never boring....is it really happening is a very pink floydy building to a climax kind of song...it starts off slow and kind of draggy, but it is just used to build the emotion of the song and then it just explodes into this epic powerful ending and very impressive technically from mr portnoy..well every song is impressive from portnoy...i mean listen to this guy...he never loses his touch with the emotion of each song and how crazy is too crazy in terms of technicality....finally dancing with eternal glory is a very morsy kind of vibe...but i dig it.....if you love his solo work then this is reminiscient of that...its great and the finale is so darn epic and fullfulling....transatlantic have been sent on earth from heaveb in a time where prog is frowned upon and music is almost dead....i believe they will help give rise to music in general in our musical future...i mean look at what dream theater accomplished...they wee just behind the jonas brothers and black eyed peas on the billboard.....I <3 TRANSATLANTIC