DARK TIDE RISING

Midnight Sun is a little known progressive metal/neo prog band from UK formed around two members of another british prog rock band named Also Eden - Huw Lloyd-Jones on vocals and Ian Hodson on keyboards. They gather around some fantastic musicians on their debut released in 2019 named Dark tide rising.

Well, this is a great album with lots of solid well played keyboards and guitar parts and above all some clean intelligent vocals. The pieces are quite long, between 6 to 10 min., and elaborated like opening Scheharazade - vocals, keyboards are strong and really intresting, another highlight is Early Warning another tune with top musicianship, there are some nice guitar solos combined with splendid keyboards manuveres. The musicians combine so well prog metal elements with neo prog that the end they are with one foot in prog metal and one in neo prog and the combination is working very well in this case.

So, a powerful debut by this brits, gone unnoticed in prog circles and is a shame, there are some trully solid parts here that will pleases both fans of prog metal and neo prog. 3.5 stars for sure.