Maze Of Time
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For those who unaware...
MOT are a five-piece band hailing from Stockholm. These guys know what they aim to do and what they are capable of... Their first album 'Tales From the Maze' (2006) was a complex mid-paced work with hints of Kaipa, Pink Floyd, TFK, IQ, Galleon, but also Deep Purple and Uriah Heep - though with pastoral melodic parts from the golden book of Genesis. If you releash to listen to some Mellotron, Moog, Hammond, Rickenbacker bass, soaring guitar and tight drum fills, all is here. Nice instrumentation is supplemented with emotive vocals. As a whole, solid stuff that manages to pay homage to the greats of the 70's but also give their own spin on modern prog-rock.
The second album 'Lullaby For Heroes' (2008) featured the tempo changes, the variety of melodies within each composition and brimming with various musical ideas. Light and versatile parts intermingle with harder material in wonderful symbiosis. Mixing calm fragments with more uptempo progressive stuff allows the talents of Alex Jonsson on keyboard department, Robert I Edman on guitar, Jan Persson on bass and Thomas Nordh on drums to shine. The lead vocals provided by new singer Jesper Landen (evoking Uriah Heep frontman Bernie Shaw) sometimes are a little fragile then that is a small enough price to pay.
MOT are a five-piece band hailing from Stockholm. These guys know what they aim to do and what they are capable of... Their first album 'Tales From the Maze' (2006) was a complex mid-paced work with hints of Kaipa, Pink Floyd, TFK, IQ, Galleon, but also Deep Purple and Uriah Heep - though with pastoral melodic parts from the golden book of Genesis. If you releash to listen to some Mellotron, Moog, Hammond, Rickenbacker bass, soaring guitar and tight drum fills, all is here. Nice instrumentation is supplemented with emotive vocals. As a whole, solid stuff that manages to pay homage to the greats of the 70's but also give their own spin on modern prog-rock.
The second album 'Lullaby For Heroes' (2008) featured the tempo changes, the variety of melodies within each composition and brimming with various musical ideas. Light and versatile parts intermingle with harder material in wonderful symbiosis. Mixing calm fragments with more uptempo progressive stuff allows the talents of Alex Jonsson on keyboard department, Robert I Edman on guitar, Jan Persson on bass and Thomas Nordh on drums to shine. The lead vocals provided by new singer Jesper Landen (evoking Uriah Heep frontman Bernie Shaw) sometimes are a little fragile then that is a small enough price to pay.
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