prog power

Molten Trail is an interesting case as they as a prog ensemble, led by a Lithuanian keyboard player, Vytautas Diskevicius that had cut his teeth with SBS, and had his fingers kept busy with a few other projects, like a heavy/power act Soul Stealer, participated in a one-off backing band for John Lawton (former frontman of Uriah Heep), and worked with the Vilnius City Opera company in rearranging classical arias for a rock band.
 

After a 7-year hiatus, the Mexican (but now based in Denver US) prog metallers Dimension return with a new 2CD release. The leading duo of David Quicho (guitars, vocals) & Mane Cabrales (drums) is still going strong along with the addition of the new bassist Edgar Allan.
 
“Revolution” is a double album as I said earlier. This means approx. 89 minutes of music! How about that?! Each CD features a cover too. The first CD features the cover on “Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles and the second has “Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin. The covers are OK but they add nothing to the final outcome.
 

AlogiA is an interesting enough prog power band from Serbia, that have quite a high level of performance ability. They have been a going concern since the beginning of this millennium and this is their fifth album. The fact that they choose to sing in their native tongue, definitely makes them sound both exotic but also makes them a little difficult to get in for non-Serbian listeners. The album allegedly signals a return to the bands usual style after an attempt of the band to break into “alternative” territory that failed quite miserably on their previous album.
 

In the 10th year of their existence, auspiciously, Triopshere, can easily be characterized as a metal force “on the rise”, which is gaining more publicity with every new album. Following the dogma of “quality over quantity”, this is their third studio album in a decade.