With Seraphic Clockwork (SC), the 5 gentlemen (boys say members of this generation no longer ;-)) have delivered a brilliant album that is currently unmatched on prog metal sky and seamlessly ties in the evenly matched production "Beyond Daylight". For too long have we let us wait! Who but SC hears knows why! With a thick opener "Frequency", which clarifies from the outset, on which travel the listener gets involved here, follows with "Holes In The Sky" and the associated elaborately produced video a good try, Vanden Plas do to a wider mass accessible. The piece certainly has potential to do even if I slightly doubt the devices at this point ... Will there also be seen, even after almost a year yet? I wish it to you! Certainly was not cheap. "Scar Of An Angel" is its backbone Jump orchestral and basic metallic parts. The good theater acquaintance of Charlotte Baumann and her guest voice sets additional stimuli. Abydos says hello. Great Idea! "Sound Of Blood" splashes me after a little too much out until just before the 4th minute of the break comes, reminds spontaneously because making music which Messrs. Great, as Günter Stephan and change the subject and give us an insight into the progressive rock of the 80s until the play is resumed at the old location. With "The Final Murder" is followed by the real jewel of this plate. Geez, who so raushaut a board, inspirations from the top must have! This work can be so readily does not describe and measure by measure must be absorbed. It represents for me after a year still the pinnacle of Prog-Metal is and I would have to go far back in the 90's, perhaps to find anything like it on a Queensryche CD. Chapeau! After the priest rang the bells in "Quicksilver", show the artist what it means to have a second income. The play drives me virtually, perhaps without good reason, to the theater to Kaiserslautern and creates associations of a previously unwritten musicals from the impact of a "Abydos" or "Christ Zero". Know your local Rhineland-Palatinate readers and listeners actually that pronounced lucky we are to have such creative minds in the country ??? "The Rush Of Silence" builds something to Title 2 and sounds lush production. Acoustic guitars, strings and piano in the middle section. Gorgeous! People, here I am reminded of old Marillion times! As we enjoyed it Clutching At Straws 1987 at the Loreley! "On My Way To Jerusalem" must have been for the band the most sophisticated piece of this concept album. It is definitely the most complex epic story of the watchmaking. An addictive Knapp-13-minute work, in which the lyrics are strictly follow along! This is not a "Pälzer-Platt-English"! One call myself a coward, but the bonus track from the musical "Ludus Danielis" and the story of the Babylonian crown prince Belshazzar and Daniel the prophet runs me cold back down. Goose bumps and watery eyes guaranteed! On a country road in the car, Track 9 and volume to the right - wow! All in all, provide the musicians and their team from great cinema. The synchronous rhythm game of Lill-brothers is how Stephen faces hammer riffs and 4-finger solos breathtaking. Günter is pleasant present to hear and Torsten provides us a strong foundation pit deep. Have you actually ever seen how many notes he plays per cycle? I bow! Andy's voice is excellent in good shape, so I will end here and have to say that the entire disk does not sound like Pro Tools, but by hand. For me it is the best prog metal album since Mindcrime. And Andy: When you have the end of May, said to me after the gig in Bad Kreuznach far too small audiences, with sighing undertone "at some point we will get there", so let's be told you: You have there but far from done! Lady Gaga also passes some point and then you fill Germany's halls (if I will still be able to stand in front of you going?). If you faithfully and we stir meanwhile strong campaign drums! See us in Wiesbaden! Regards, Frank from KH
