UNFOLD THE FUTURE

This is going to be another hard decision for the final judgement over this double album. With most of their releases it's somewhere between 4 and 5, the epics usually worth 5 stars the shorter far less making me round down to 4. It's probably the same with this one but I will do it track by track again.

1. The Truth will set you free. Tremendous epic, as usual with many different passsages within the song. 5 stars. 2. Monkey Business. Quite nice shorter track. 3,75 stars. 3. Black & White. Somewhat longer but not better. 3,5 stars. 4. Christianopel. Lesser effort on this album. 2,5 stars. 5. Silent inferno. One of those epics I love the most. 5 stars. 6. The Navigator. Unimpressive short track. 2,5 stars. 7. Vox Humana. Quite special this, nice atmosphere from this track. 4 stars. 1. Genie in a bottle. Typical TFK is what I can say about this. 4 stars. 2. Fast Lane. Quiet longer song but not bad. 3,5 stars. 3. Grand old world. A bit balladlike, quite nice. 3,5 stars. 4. Soul Vortex. I don't quite recall: was this the instrumental ? 3,75 stars. 5. Rolling the dice. The downside of TFK which I'm not too fond of. 2 stars. 6. Devil's danceschool. Same actually. 2 stars. 7. Man overboard. Not much to say about this, same as 8. Solitary shell. Both 2,5 stars. 9. Devil's Playground. Had to get used to this one for quite some time. But it kept growing on me. 5 stars. 10. Too late for tomatoes. Another instrumental with nice guitar play by Roine Stolt. Strange ending. 4 stars.

So if we compare this to Flower Power and Paradox Hotel, two other doublers I gave 5 stars I could do the same with this one. But what's missing in spite of the three 5 star tracks is the ultimate classic that were present on the other two albums (Garden of Dreams and Monsters and men). So it's a close call but I'll leave it at 4.