MILLIONTOWN

There is a lot of acts with this name around now. I personally remember a good black metal band with the same name who emulated the best of Mayhem's masterpiece Mysteries Dom Sathanas. I am missing that band.........or maybe I have just lost touch with that scene. Another Frost is doing the rounds on the folk-rock circuit Norway and I also believe there is one band in Iceland with the same name. Or is it a bank with the same name ? Give us your savings and get your bank account frozen.

Well, over to this neo progressive rock band. The first Dream Theater like minutes of this album blew me away. The music is pretty symphonic throughout and laden by excellent guitars and keyboards. The right stuff, in other words. The vocals are great too. The music swings between quiet reflection and bombastic heavy parts. The twenty six minutes long title track is a typical example. Although the rest of the one hour long album is not as strong as the beginning, this album is one of the better progressive rock albums released during the last two years. Milliontown being the debut album from this UK band, I am looking forward to the follow up album.

A goodish album.