THE ALL EUROPEAN HERO

When I saw the rating for this album and read some of the reviews I couldn't supress a sarcastic smile I'm afraid. Here we have another extremely fine sounding neo progressive album that gets critisized just because it isn't special or original enough. Hmmmm ....

Okay, maybe it's not really groundbreaking in this subgenre let alone for prog in general but where is the appreciation for a great piece of music ?? Not here on PA I have to say with exception of a review of one of our guests. All European Hero is simply an excellent neo album, as far as I'm concerned they don't get much better. Some of the passages are very accessible, true, but that doesn't make it inferior music to me. Especially the opening intro track and the instrumental anthem track are superb pieces of melodic music with brilliant compositional elements.

Maybe there has been little appreciation for this album on our site so far but at least the band will get it from me. For me this release could be their best ever with some competition from King of Aragon, From Land to Ocean and Engines of Creation. Ok, the other songs aren't as magnificent as the mentioned stand out tracks but they are at least very good. So I can only give this album a high rating. Not a masterpiece, let's not get carried away but a wonderful neo album in my opinion. Maybe I'm from another planet ..........