LORD OF THE AGES

Progressive it ain't. Magna Carta does accoustic guitar based folk music with a hint of country & western. Glenn Stuart's vocals are superb and the main good thing about this band. They also includes some female vocals here and those are very good. I am not that happy about their use of steel guitars. The music here is pretty good. It is nowhere near progressive........

.......with one exception. The ten minutes long title track. This is their progressive alibi. How is it ? I would use the word decent. The first part of this epic can be compared to Spinal Tap's epic Stonehenge. Spoken words over some dramatic music. Thankfully, this song improves and takes on some elements of symphonic prog. That's it.

This album and Magna Carta's music in general is so nice and inoffensive that I cannot bring myself to say anything negative about them. I even admit I like some of their stuff and I have too many Magna Carta albums. Hopefully, this will not be mentioned in my obituary in The Times. But I cannot give this album more than two stars. This is not a progressive rock album.

2 stars

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