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The Flower Kings seem to never fail when it comes down to writing a solid record, with shorter more single based songs, and large and bombastic, symphonic and emotional epics. This swedish symphonic progressive rock band never fails to bring up some of their best work to the forefront. The album opens with a 25 minute masterpiece titled 'Numbers' which follows the more Supper's Ready format, recalling moments in the song and making a soft and warm epic that is constructed to the absolute tee. The lyrics on the epic are also very well written, and follow the mood of the track. 'For The Love Of Gold' follows a bit more of a soft rock and Camel format, something that the band doesn't do often but always works given their influences, the song also has a very swift and emotional keyboard solo from Tomas Bodin. As for the next track 'Pandemonium', this song also follows a bit more in the symphonic sound with more of the accessibility of the previous track, soaring keyboards and guitar soundscapes. 'For Those About To Drown' is very similar to the previous two tracks after 'Numbers'. The other standout track from this great album is the final piece 'Rising The Imperial', a very soft song that follows the themes off 'Numbers' with some more dramatic soft rock bits and a very emotional guitar solo from Roine Stolt.

The Flower Kings usually never release a bad record (Adam and Eve was close but it was still good), and this is one of those extraordinary releases by the band. This definitely is a good follow up album coming off the back of releasing The Sum Of No Evil in 2007. So the band nails another album in the 2000s, well done Roine, Tomas, Jonas, Felix, and Hasse.

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