The second album from this band from The Netherlands.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards, synths and vocals.
This band album debuted back in 2005 with the album The Saga. I reviewed it in August 2015 for # 1 of this blog and liked it a lot. Prog rock in the vein of Genesis, the Mama era.
I did not expect a return from the band as they were involved in other projects and bands. Thankfully, I was wrong and Ice returned nineteen years later.
The music is a mix of art-rock, symphonic prog, pomp rock and neo-prog.
There are still a lot of Genesis, the Mama era influences on this one hour and six minutes long album. Ditto for some pomp rock too.
The music is very melodic. It still has a lot of bites and substance you only get from progressive rock. The music is also pretty epic with some good, long guitar solos.
The vocals too is good and this album is a bit of a Dutch prog rock feast as it has the good old classic Dutch prog rock sound. The same sound as on their debut album in fact.
The result is a good album where the song writing could have been better but who still deliver the goods.
Check it out.
3 points
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