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    Posted: February 23 2018 at 10:43
That is very sad news, I've been delving back into Threshold's back catalogue over the last year, and I thought his work was excellent. Played Dead Reckoning and Critical Mass a few weeks back and really enjoyed them. R.I.P.
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Points: 1578 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 23 2018 at 09:47
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

This is quite shocking news.  I've not listened to Threshold in a while, except for a couple of listens to Clone.  Has anyone heard any of his more recent projects?

He was in a heavy/power metal project called PowerWorld. They released an album in 2010, called Human Parasite. Pretty good album.

Fans of Mac need to check out Sargant Fury. 

They covered Eagle by Abba.
One of the best metalcovers of a popsong.
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Points: 45458 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 23 2018 at 08:19
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

This is quite shocking news.  I've not listened to Threshold in a while, except for a couple of listens to Clone.  Has anyone heard any of his more recent projects?

He was in a heavy/power metal project called PowerWorld. They released an album in 2010, called Human Parasite. Pretty good album.

Fans of Mac need to check out Sargant Fury. 


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RIP Mac...
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My favorite was probably Subsurface, though I love Hypothetical and Dead Reckoning as well.
Clone I could never get into, and Critical Mass was ok, but not as good as the others.
 
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Points: 136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2011 at 15:42
Damn... And I didn't know until now. I honestly didn't care much about that guy, though he made some really great songs with Threshold!
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The pilot is definitively in the sky of dreams.
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RIP - Threshold will never be the same. 
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Points: 5348 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2011 at 03:45
It strange, it seems to me by reading all the posts here on this subject, thta Andrew "Mac" has only done 1 good album (hypothetical)Shocked I thing there is a lot more good cds where "Mac" was part of....
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I'm shocked - a great singer. RIP Mac.
 
 
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Points: 74 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2011 at 09:43
Unhappy RIP. He was a great singer. I love Hypothetical, one of my fav prog-metal albums...
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Rest in piece. You were great artist and we gonna miss you
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Points: 4888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2011 at 12:27
He wasn't much older than I currently am.
Now he is in eternal peace, not suffering whatever terrible disease he had to go through in the last months of his life - thank you for the music, Mac, I'm right now listening to the "Hypothetical" album in your honor.
My condolences to his family and friends.
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Points: 2523 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2011 at 05:46
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Ouch

Hypothetical is one of my favorite prog-metal albums ever. RIP Mac. 
Hypothetical is fantastic .RIP Mac. 
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Originally posted by stewe stewe wrote:

Yargos is a project where he impressed me the most... very sad indeed.


Yes, this is very good prog metal!
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Yargos is a project where he impressed me the most... very sad indeed.


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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2011 at 10:03
Sad news.
 
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Points: 5348 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2011 at 04:09
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

This is quite shocking news.  I've not listened to Threshold in a while, except for a couple of listens to Clone.  Has anyone heard any of his more recent projects?


http://www.myspace.com/powerworld
http://www.myspace.com/yargosmusic
http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-Sargant_Fury-l-fr.html
http://www.swampfreaks.com/

He was in 4 projects with Powerworld, Yargos, Sargant Fury and Swampfreaks
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Points: 2060 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2011 at 01:53
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2011 at 00:06
very sad indeed. May he rest in peace.
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