Category: Progressive Rock

Crylord: Blood Of The Prophets

Heavy/Power Metal

3.5/5.0

Lion Music
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by Craig Hartranft,  10.03.2011

With little doubt, Boguslaw Balcerak can play guitar. Crylord is the project and platform for this versatile Polish guitarist who performs in the neo-classical tradition.Blood of the Prophets is his debut on Lion Music (well known for signing major new guitar talent). Besides several of Poland’s finest musicians, Balcerak is supported on lead vocals by three men who are quite familiar with neo-classical inspired heavy metal: Carsten ‘Lizard’ Schulz, Goran Edman, and Marc Boals. Additionally, the album was produced by King Diamond guitarist Andy LaRocque.

Balcerak and Crylord deliver solid melodic heavy and power metal driven by his fiery guitar work. Yet any axe slinger can rip up the fret board for a matter of record. But the real question is, can they do this in the context of well written songs? The answer for Balcerak and company is cautious affirmative. Blood of the Prophets, Grave of Love, Valley of the Dead, and Angel of Divine show inspiration beyond a clinic in guitar technique. Warrior’s Moon or Behind the Walls of Sadness, maybe not so much. But Carsten Schulz steals the show on these anyway. However, for pure epic power metal and a double dose of fret angst, When the Time Has Come and The Healing Hands of Destruction offer a reasonable balance between guitar technique and song composition.

(Above right: Boguslaw Balcerak looking much too serious.)

Fundamentally, however, enjoying Boguslaw Balcerak’s Crylord and Blood Of The Prophets likely depends on your interest and/or tolerance for neo-classical guitar technique. There’s plenty of widdling and wiggling across the fret board here, and arpeggios abound. In the end, all this review stands on that opening sentence.

1. Ante Bellum Overture (Intro) (1:50)
2. Blood of the Prophets (5:58)
3. Grave of Love (4:34)
4. Bard’s Tale (4:56)
5. Warrior’s Moon (3:50)
6. Face of Destiny (5:07)
7. The Heretic (3:00)
8. Behind the Walls of Sadness (5:51)
9. Angel of Divine (4:16)
10. Valley of the Dead (8:12)
11. When the Time Has Come (5:09)
12. The Healing Hands of Destruction (6:40)

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Band Zeus B. Held
Info: Europium
Style: Progressive / Kraut Rock
Years: 1979
Info: 192 kbps
Info: 64 mb
Info: Germany

Tracklist:

1.Introduction Speciale
2.Held It
3.Mechanical Choir
4.Sound Trigger
5.Intermezzo In Aqua
6.Harlie’s Waltz
7.Intermedium Nepalese
8.Musik, Music, Musique
9.Europium Suite
a.Coulered Tan Go
b.Europium
c.Four Phases Of An Imagist’s Blue
d.Sound City Song

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Band Hawkwind
Info: Space Bandits
Style: Progressive Rock / Space Rock
Years: 1990
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100,03 Mb
Info: UK

Tracklist:

01 – Images.
02 – Black Elk Speaks.
03 – Wings.
04 – Out Of The Shadows.
05 – Realms.
06 – Ship Of Dreams.
07 – T.V. Suicide.

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Band Pyramidal
Info: Dawn in Space
Years: 2011
Style: Progressive Psychedelia / Space Rock
Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps
Info: Spain
????? Tracklist: 61:44
Info: 138 Mb

Tracklist:
01.Intronauts 01:32
02.Black Land 08:58
03.Kosmik Blizzard 06:44
04.Dawn in Space 08:27
05.Plastikleuten (Part I & II) 10:29
06.Tempel Iaru 11:15
07.Mars Lagoon 14:19

Miguel Rodes /// Electric Bass Guitar
Miguel Angel Sanz /// Electric Guitar & Synthetizer
Óscar Soler /// Electric Guitar & Voices
Lluís Mas /// Drums & Percussion

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Band Hawkwind
Info: The Chronicle Of The Black Sword (2009R)
Style: Progressive Rock / Space Rock
Years: 1985
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 133,11 Mb
Info: UK

Tracklist:

01 – Song Of The Swords.
02 – Shade Gate.
03 – The Sea King.
04 – The Pulsing Cavern.
05 – Elric The Enchanter.
06 – Needle Gun.
07 – Zarozinia.
08 – The Demise.
09 – Sleep Of A Thousand Tears.
10 – Chaos Army.
11 – Horn Of Destiny.
12 – Arioch.
13 – Night Of The Hawks.
14 – Green Finned Demon.
15 – Dream Dancers.
16 – Dragons And Fables.

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It’s hard for me on a personal level to get into bands that I don’t already love nowadays. The itching for more music from my favorite bands triumphs scouring the interweb for a new band that will probably get a couple listens. There are very few new bands I’ve discovered in the past year or so that are getting frequent listens, so when I stumbled upon guitar wizard Paul Wardingham (whose career is seemingly nonexistent in the big picture) and his solo project going by the same name, I had zero intentions on expecting his debut, Assimilate Regenerate, to be good beyond a couple listens. Especially for a shreddy instrumental album. Lo and behold, here I am listening to it on repeat. All 60 minutes of it.

If a giant correlation could be drawn to one band in the music industry, it would be melo-death giants Scar Symmetry, mostly their Holographic Universe release. The inspiration and similarity is clear as day here: futuristic synths, chunky death metal riffs rotating between soaring cosmic leads/solos and varying levels of aggression, harmony and chaos. The difference here is that Paul Wardingham doesn’t need vocals as a fallback for sub par musicianship or blazing fret masturbation to mend abysmal writing. All the mechanical skill is here in its purest form, ready to be digested for many, many listens. Toss all cheap gimmicks out the window as well becauseAssimilate Regenerate uses its well-placed synths (though sounding sometimes like a direct copy of Holographic Universe‘s synths) to add depth and character to each song, further evoking the style and theme of the album, rather than a cover up for sloppy or unimpressive playing.

01. Assimilate Regenerate
02. Futureshock
03. Ghost In The Machine
04. Brain Interactive Construct
05. Fields Of Utopia
06. Enter The Metaverse
07. Mindwarp
08. Clones
09. Cyber Warfare
10. Orbital Decay
11. Black Hole Device

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01. Intro: La Vida
02. La Salida
03. Loco, Medio Cuerdo
04. La Ultima Carta
05. La Eternidad
06. Media Alma
07. Ojos, Mirad

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I started writing my own material about 8 years ago. This is my latest solo effort using an 8 string guitar. I write, record, and master all guitars, bass, synth, and vocals. Drums are sequenced by me using double bass mania one shot hits.

1. The Burning Cycle, 04:45
2. Remember The Fallen (feat. Matt O.), 05:50
3. The One Thing I Could Not Say, 04:01
4. Defined, 03:57

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The Zappa Family Trust announced a new release by Frank Zappa today: Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison.

We currently don’t have much info, other than that it’s a previously unreleased Synclavier album, which was originally planned as a vinyl release.

01. Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison
02. Buffalo Voice
03. Secular Humanism
04. Worms From Hell
05. Samba Funk

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Band Hawkwind
Info: Church Of Hawkwind
Style: Progressive Rock / Space Rock
Years: 1982
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 130,48 Mb
Info: UK

Tracklist:

01 – Angel Voices.
02 – Nuclear Drive.
03 – Star Cannibal.
04 – The Phenomenon Of Luminosity.
05 – Fall Of Earth City.
06 – The Church.
07 – Identimate.
08 – Some People Never Die.
09 – Damage Of Life.
10 – Experiment With Destiny.
11 – Mists Of Meridin.
12 – Looking In The Future.
13 – Joker At The Gate.
14 – Light Specific Data.
15 – The Last Messiah.

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