Witherscape - The Inheritance(2013)

Today I bring you a return of a band I already talked about, Dan Swano's Witherscape. I have been hearing The Northern Sanctuary and suddenly youtube suggests me some songs from The Inheritance. The first song I am going to show you is "Dead For A Day". It is a dark song both lyrical and musicaly, with some lessons to be taken. What I love the most in Witherscape is it have soft parts and then some really harsh ones, being that the harsh ones really make sense to me. Like a fit of rage.

Lyrics likes these
I wish I could be dead for a day
Just to hear what all the people would say
To find out in the end, who was really my friend
And what the meaning of life's all about

and these

Dreamer's day, when he longs to say,
And take it all in stride,
Sitting alone in his prisoned mind,
The jaded takes its toll again

 are really my jam.


the second song is "Astrid Falls", musically the song is the Heaven for Progressive people. good variance, from soft parts to some heavy one. Once again the clean vocals really balances the harsher ones.

I'm glad to finally have come around this 2013 album

Therion - A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming(1997)

Greetings, today I noticed I never posted anything about my all time favourite band Therion. I remembered tha band cause they will come here in 2018 and I can't lose it if I can. The first Album I want to show you something about is A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming, mainly a song which has Dan Swano's collaboration. And is called "In Remembrance"

Nightingale - Nightfall Overture(2004)

Greetings, sorry for the silence the past weeks, but I had and still have a lot of work and forgot about the blog, but here I am again, today I bring you the soft-metal band from Dan Swano from 2004, Nightingale, I love the sound, pure progressive full of emotion.

The Song I'm going to show you is the song with the same name as the album Nightfall Overture

Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary (2016)

 Happy new 2017, hope this year will brings us better vibes than the last one.

Cheers, sorry for my absence, but the last 3 weeks of Decemeber were a true roller coaster, with so much to do that I didn't have time to post anything. But new year new material to share. I found a lot of new and interesting things to share with you. the first one is Withescape, I'm an amazing fan of Dan Swäno, since I heard his voice on Star One project from Arjen Lucassen and after hearing Sumeria song from Devin Townsend. This album mixes some heavy riffs and sounds with a melodic and clean vocals, I like this kind of combo. It also has a doom touch I really enjoy.
First I'm showing you the song that brought me to this band. "Marionette"

At last I'll show you the lyric video for this album "In The Eyes Of Idols"

 You won't have to wait so much for the next post, next Saturday you can wait for it.

ProgCenter - Threshold 3/4 - Dead Reckoning (2007)

This Tuesday I will post the third part of the Threshold post. The third part for me came with Dead Reckoning, the band would hardly believe that this would be an album that wound bring them more fans, more public, and put Threshold on it's right place. I am one of the ones who knew Threshold only on Dead Reckning, had rediscovered the other albums later.

Dead Reckoning had this current line up and track list

• Karl Groom - lead guitars
• Richard West - keyboards
• Andrew "Mac" McDermott - lead vocals
• Johanne James - drums
• Steve Anderson - bass 

Track List

1. "Slipstream" – 4:54 (Groom/West) (feat. Dan Swanö)
2. "This Is Your Life" – 3:41 (West)
3. "Elusive" – 6:10 (Groom/West) (feat. Dan Swanö)
4. "Hollow" – 4:00 (West)
5. "Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams" – 9:46 (West)
6. "Fighting For Breath" – 8:16 (Groom/West)
7. "Disappear" – 4:17 (West)
8. "Safe To Fly" – 5:06 (Groom/West)
9. "One Degree Down" – 8:33 (Groom/West)
10. "Supermassive Black Hole" (Bonus Track)* - 3:08

This album makes a turning point in several things, the band follow is political view on lyrics, but now they also had some metaphoric stories and line, gives less linear musics, but as hard ans strong as before. Also some new subjects are added to lyrics, mainly the ones involving, good emotions, trust, partnership, belief. They now create a complete lesson on their songs. On their released single they release a rare thing on metal, at least not so seen, the drummer is a black one and the bassist seems to have any indian background, it's a multicultural band for sure. The Progressive elements are for me more evident than ever, all songs have their paces and rhythms.

On this album, Dan Swano (Edge of Sanity) appears in two songs, ading to that we still count with BIG Mac. However that would change Drastically and dramatically, in 2007 Andrew MacDermott left the band, didn't took long until the bad news came out, he was with somekind of disease in his kidneys. I will tell more on the last part of this Threshold post.

The song I will post was the first one I ever heard from Threshold and here you can see how a matter of trust, love, partnership, belief can be so easily related to a plane departing and all the troubles the plain senses with storms and so ever, and how it relates to any of us. It shows how our troublefree sky of dreams can suddenly become a torment and there is when is really important to have someone to hear us. I will put the Video Version, and right after the normal album version, enjoy.

Pilot in the Sky of Dreams

Official Videoclip