HEAVEN ON EARTH

A German symphonic prog band from the 80s in the manner of Eloy and Genesis? Sounds great on paper, but the execution just isn't there. This is a group with some clue how to play, but almost no idea how to compose or write. Apart from the last part of the lengthy title cut, which is more like superb AOR than prog, and "Water-Problem", most of the album is indistinguishable and undistinguished. Not quite as bad as Scaramouche but nowhere near deserving of comparisons to some of prog's greats, teutonic or otherwise.