NUCLEUS

Sandwiched somewhere in the prog-metal, avant-prog school of genre categorization comes ANEKDOTEN's second and IMHO most complete work "Nucleus". Musically this band show no sign of anything but high adrenaline performance skills and although have a strong tendency towards an aggressive style on this album, also behave in contrast with mellotron led interludes and passages that ebbs and flow. Up and down , high and low . this is the trade mark of "Nucleus" and in many ways plays out like Japan's "Happy Family" with hard, crazy hectic musical explosions and highly controlled passages. I guess by nature it is hard not to draw some similarities between KING CRIMSON (aka "Red" era) and ANEKDOTEN. Guitarist Nicklas Berg's does play in a FRIPP-like manner at times and musically their songs act in the mid CRIMSON period flavour.

Their originality is branded in their mix of Scandanavian folk and avante-garde prog-metal. Line up is Peter Nordins (percussion), Jan Erik Lijestroem (bass, vocals), Nicklas Barker (guitars, clavinet and voice) and Anna Sofi Dahlberg (cello, Mellotron, voice). Those lucky enough to own the Arcangelo Record remastered version will immediately hear the major sound improvement in the re-mastering and according to liner notes ANEKDOTEN were never really pleased with the original sonically and this is a major improvement. Also with this version is an additional and awesome tune "Luna Surface" which was cut from the original line up and now has accurately been placed on the album as originally intended.