02. The promised land
03. Sword of Goliath
04. Holy spirit fire
05. Psalm 61
06. What kind of love
07. The highway
08. Forever I am
09. On the treshold of eternity
DISTRIBUTION
: Bertus
E-mail: info@ajalon.net
URL: www.ajalon.net
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BAND | : | AJALON (US) | |
| TITLE | : | ON THE TRESHOLD OF ETERNITY | ||
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Anthem of the seventh day 02. The promised land 03. Sword of Goliath 04. Holy spirit fire 05. Psalm 61 06. What kind of love 07. The highway 08. Forever I am 09. On the treshold of eternity |
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| LABEL DISTRIBUTION |
: Threshing Floor / Progrock Records : Bertus |
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| Making reviews from a lot of different music
styles is for sure not so easy but because it’s such
a big challenge I never walk away from it, although even
I do have my limits. But when I heard the first tumes
from this record I knew I would like it, it’s just
high standard progrock what Ajalon is bringing us
on this album. It’s their second album but it took
them nine years because their debutalbum ‘Light
At The End Of The Tunnel’ was released in 1996.
But hey, I’m not complaining, especially not because
this is the first time I hear about Ajalon. This
is in fact the brainchild from multi-instrumentalist
Randy George, a wellknown name within the Christian Prog
Rock-scene, so yes, this is a Christian band. But
don’t let the lyrics do the talking, let the music
speak for itself, that’s in my opinion what’s
it all about. They start with the instrumental song "Anthem
Of The Seventh Day" which has an
Irish/Celtic-touch to it and it shows directly to what
the three musicians(besides Randy on guitar, bass
and keyboards we have Will Henderson on vocals,
bass and guitar and Dan Lile on drums)are capable
of and that’s a lot. This song even wouldn’t do
bad on a Camel-record. Also influences from Kansas
and Rush are being heard, for example on the
second song "The Promised Land" on which
singer Will impresses me a lot. Sometimes Will does
reminds me a lot of Geddy Lee or Neal Morse,
and it only shows what he can do with his voice. There
are some nice guitarsolos on this song, the drumparts are
inventive and the basslines are pretty groovy. The song "Sword
Of Goliath" is one great fantastic progrock
journey from the beginning to the end could be described
as being an up-tempo progrocksong with some nice
guitarwork and outstanding vocals. "Holy Spirit
Fire" is just the kind of song you wanna listen
to when you’re a bit down, just because this is a
pretty warm song through the use of sitar, mandoline,
acoustic guitar and piano. The song "What Kind Of
Love" is also pretty special because of the
jazzy touch to it and because the keyboard- and
guitarparts are pretty inventive. Also special because Rick
Wakeman is doing some solos on his keyboard and on
his organ. The last song on this record is the titletrack
which opens with some heavy and bombastic keyboardparts
and a lot of great guitarwork. Furthermore we can hear
singer Neal Morse on this track, this in
combination with the great vocals of singer Will.
This is again a great progrock-song and if you’re a
real progrock-fan you’ll get a chilly feeling when
listening to this song, it’s just amazing. I also
want to mention that another wellknown musician, named Phil
Keaggy, is singing and playing guitar on the song "Holy
Spirit Fire". And normally this album should be
over after song number nine but that’s not the case,
there’s also a tenth track. This song is called "You
And Me" and this is a cover from The Moody
Blues, which has been recorded by Ajalon for
the Moody Blues tribute album ‘Higher And
Higher", which should come out soon or has been
released already. So in all honesty, "On The
Threshold Of Eternity" is a CD every
progrock-fan should have in it’s collection, no
doubt about that. E-mail: info@ajalon.net URL: www.ajalon.net |
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