NOSTRADAMUS BOOK OF PROPHECIES

I have never heard nothing like this before, they have a unique style. The album is an instrumental one, well, there's one song with lyrics, which I don't like very much, not just because i don't understand them, but because the gothic style they put in the song is not quite the one I prefer. And it is that particular characteristic that makes me put 4.5 stars to the album because this gothic touch is put in all songs (like various medieval choruses), but by any means this is a thing that interferes with the brilliant, outstanding songs (well, now that I think of it, this gothic feature that I say falls wonderfully with the album title and the mood of the songs) played by this top class musicians. All members play very complex music with there insruments,the guitars (which reminds me of John Petrucci's), the keyboards (with so many mazy amazing paths, excellent) and specially the flute playing is the album's presentation card, very different from Ian Anderson's style as someone said previously, it's really amazing how a flute can come so much right in place here where the songs contain so much distorted and heavy parts (hey, not all the album!! and it's not bad, keep in mind this is not metal!!). Well, the first and last songs are very different from the rest of the songs, this 2 songs ("Book of Prophecies" and "The Moment of Truth") are the ones where a gothic atmosphere is very present. The second part of "Book of Prophecies" is one of the best tracks of the album, and a very complex one and is where the guitar really shows off. The other highlights of the album are "The Duel", "Ship of Darkness" and "The Lion's Empire". This album is amazing, it has a little bit of everything and there's no way a prog head won't like it (love it).