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LIVEDELICA

Threshold

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3.48 | 31 ratings | 5 reviews | 19% 5 stars

Good, but non-essential

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Live, released in 1995

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. A Tension of Souls (7:27)
2. Sanity's End (11:06)
3. Innocent (4:38)
4. Surface to Air (9:13)
5. Paradox (8:27)

Total Time 40:51

Line-up / Musicians

- Glynn Morgan / vocals
- Karl Groom / guitar, backing vocals
- Richard West / keyboards, backing vocals
- Nick Midson / guitar
- Jon Jeary / bass, backing vocals
- Jay Micciche / drums

Releases information

CD Giant Electric Pea GEPCD1015 (1995)

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THRESHOLD Livedelica ratings distribution


3.48
(31 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(19%)
19%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(26%)
26%
Good, but non-essential (48%)
48%
Collectors/fans only (6%)
6%
Poor. Only for completionists (0%)
0%

THRESHOLD Livedelica reviews


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Review by Greger
PROG REVIEWER
4 stars As always when THRESHOLD is releasing a new album, there is also a new line-up. This time it's a live album, which is showing a heavier side of THRESHOLD than on the studio albums. The drummer Jay Micciche has a heavy way of playing, and that is one of the reasons. Usually it would be a strange move to release a live album with only two albums in the back-catalogue, but the many line-up changes and the development in style is justifying this. You can hear it very clear especially in the tracks that are originating from the debut album "Wounded Land". The CD is recorded during their tour that went throughout 1994 and 1995, and included shows with MAGNUM, PARADISE LOST, WHITESNAKE and DREAM THEATER. This album may be a good introduction for new listeners, but also a great album for the old fans.
Review by Mellotron Storm
PROG REVIEWER
3 stars This is THRESHOLD's third release, and their first live album.They have a new drummer for this one and it's kind of interesting hearing Glynn Morgan singing the three songs that Damian Wilson originally sang.

"A Tension Of Souls" is pretty faithful to the original with a slow and heavy intro.The song picks up tempo 3 minutes in as riffs arrive. Glynn's vocals on this song remind me of Jon Oliva's, kind of rough. "Sanity's End" is all about the vocals. I like the mellow interlude 2 1/2 minutes in.This is one song I can hear Wilson's vocals in my mind, and Glynn is really faithful to his style. The synths sound great, as does the soaring guitar 6 minutes in. A minute later they just let it rip ! Nice keyboard solo followed by some biting guitar.

"Innocent" opens with reserved vocals and melancholic guitar melody. Vocals get passionate as drums come in. A blistering guitar solo 3 minutes in.This becomes a powerful song and the vocals have a lot to do with that. "Surface To Air" opens with soft vocals and piano, as a full sound comes in before 2 minutes. Some fantastic guitar 5 minutes in. "Paradox" has an uptempo chorus and some screaming guitar 7 minutes in.

This is a good live record but most of my favourites from the first two albums are missing. Still, the crowd is very into this concert and the band played extremely well.

Review by The Crow
PROG REVIEWER
3 stars First live album of the British prog-metal band Threshold!

The sound of the album is fantastic but to be honest, maybe a bit too much. I don't know how elaborate the mixing process and the post-production of this album was, but it really sounds like a studio record most of the time, decreasing the credibility and spontaneity of the music included here.

However, the band made a good work here! Glynn Morgan tried to imitate the Damian Wilson vocals in the excellent Wounded Land songs with irregular fortune but he is fine nonetheless, and Livedelica was also the only album where the former drummer Nick Harrandence can be heard, making a powerful and accurate contribution.

Conclusion: Livedelica is a fine but far from essential live album from this underrated band, sadly out of print these days but included in the special edition of their second album Psychedelicatessen.

Specially recommended for fans!

My rating: ***

Review by Warthur
PROG REVIEWER
4 stars This live release - originally put out as a standalone before being collected on recent 2CD editions of Psychedelicatessen - captures Threshold in the midst of a European tour in early 1995. There's only five tracks here, drawn from their first two albums, but given that this is prog metal you do still get a decent amount of music; the running time is a shade over 41 minutes, and given that they were in a support slot for the shows in question this is probably an accurate representation of what you'd have got at those shows.

Glynn Morgan is on vocals here - he was about to depart again, prompting a brief return for Damian Wilson - but to my ears he seems to have improved notably. Don't get me wrong, his vocals on Psychedelicatessen were fine, but they were only fine - they were perfectly acceptable generic vocals which didn't seem to have much in the way of distinctive character. He's a bit less stiff here, and that's to the benefit both of his performance and to the music as a whole - I can better understand what the band saw in him at the time, and why they'd welcome him back to the fold more recently. After this, he'd depart to form Mindfeed, and I can see why he'd opt to take a bet on himself on the strength of his work here.

As for the band themselves, they're giving the songs here an energetic workthrough which really showcases their capabilities in a live context. Jay Micciche's drumming is a bit uninspiring - Jay would leave to join Mindfeed after this - but perhaps that's inevitable given that Threshold seemed to have trouble finding a drummer who really gelled with the group in their early years. (To give you an idea, Johanne James has been the group's drummer for every release since Hypothetical in 2001; prior to him they had four different drummers, only one of whom actually appeared on two consecutive studio releases!) One could easily chalk up Micciche's playing to needing to catch up with a complex back catalogue of material in a hurry after the departure of Nick Harradence, so I don't mean any great criticism of Micciche by this, and it's certainly not enough to stop this being a compelling live release.

Latest members reviews

3 stars This live EP is highly recommended to all the Threshold fans (the others go buy the studio albums first!) since it shows the band at its first peak, recorded during the german tour supporting Dream Theater. I love the way Glynn Morgan sings the songs from the first album (to be honest: I prefer ... (read more)

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