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(Dead Heroes Club) - "A Time Of Shadow"

Label - Self Released
Reviewed by:

(Charlie O'Mara) From "Silhobbit.com"

Genre:
(Prog Rock)
Country:
Ireland
Length:
53:53
Release Date:
June 15th 2009
Band Members: Liam Campbell / vocals, guitars Mickey Gallagher / drums, percussion
  Wilson Graham / bass, vocals Gerry Mc Gerigal / guitars, vocals
  Chris Norby / keyboards, piano
     
Track Listing: 1.)-Theatre of the Absurd (9:13)  
  2.)-Stranger in the Looking Glass (9:43)  
  3.)-The Centre Cannot Hold (4:10)  
  4.)- A Gathering of Crows (11:25)  
  5.)-The Sleepers Are Waking (4:15)  
  6.)-A Time of Shadow (15:07)  
     
     

Review:

Ireland's not well know for being a hotbed of progressive rock, and Dead Heroes Club, from Derry, reckon that they're the only ones, and I'm in no position to argue!***

A Time Of Shadow is the bands second album, originally independantly released last year, but they've since been signed by ProgRock Records in the US, so it should be a lot easier to get hold of.***

The whole feel of this is classic prog rock, from the Tolkienesque cover to the songs themselves; long in title and long in length!***

The album opens up in fine progging style with Theatre Of The Absurd, which, at 9 minutes and 13 seconds is only the fourth longest track on offer! Prog rocks! And it's a good taster for when the band have in store. Undoubtable prog leanings, over a track reminiscient of Jump in their mellower moments. Indeed, singer Liam Campbell's voice is a cross between Peter Gabriel and Fish with a touch of the John Dexter Jones' thrown in for good measure. The second track is the equally as long Stranger In The Looking Glass, opening up in a wonderful Pink Floyd mode, with Gerry McGerigal's guitar work very much in the David Gilmour style, before breaking into early, bouncy Marillion bass-driven thing delivered by Wilson Graham.***

The shorter and rockier The Centre Cannot Hold follows on, injecting some urgency into the album, but this gives way to A Gathering Of Crows, with it's sampled intro of hate and overtly proggy keyboard riff courtesy of Chris Norby. We played this song on Proggy Style 61 back in July, so you should be familiar with this track, with its powerful lyrics decrying religious fanaticsm on all sides. Eleven and a half minutes of prog pomposity for us all to enjoy!***

The emotional The Sleepers Are Waiting comes next; dedicated, as the album is, to a friend of the band who passed away. It's another exceptional track that highlights the bands versitality. Final track, A Time Of Shadow rounded off this weeks Proggy Style Radio Show. It's a prog rock epic in every sense of the word. Fifteen minutes long, slowly building up, a classic way to end the album.***

This is an excellent album, one that any fan of proper prog will enjoy, time after time.***

(Charlie O'Mara) From "Silhobbit.com"

 

 

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