LP Arjen Anthony Lucassen's STAR ONE Victims Of The Modern Age (2LP) 150 Copies

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2LP Arjen Anthony Lucassen's STAR ONE 

Victims Of The Modern Age

Limited Edition of 150 Copies In Black Vinyl

Country of release: Finland, 2015

Original released: 2010 (CD only)

Label: Blood Music

Catalogue number: BLOOD-139

Barcode: 0764072823591

Includes Innersleeves

 Condition Records: Mint

Condition Cover: Mint

Tracks Side 1:

1. Down The Rabbit Hole (1:20)

2. Digital Rain (6:23)

3. Earth That Was (6:08)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Victim Of The Modern Age (6:27)

2. Human See, Human Do (5:14)

3. 24 Hours (7:20)

Tracks Side 3:

1. Cassandra Complex (5:24)

2. It's Alive, She's Alive, We're Alive (5:07)

3. It All Ends Here (9:46)
a) I Think Therefor I Am
b) Four Years
c) It All Ends Here

Tracks Side 4:

1. As The Crow Dies (4:42)

2. Two Plus Two Equals Five (5:04)

3. Lastday (4:46)

4. Closer To The Stars  (5:11)

5. Knife Edge (4:25)

Listen At YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iw5up7xtbo

Notes:
This configuration:
60 COPIES FOR USA/CANADA
90 COPIES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

First-time vinyl pressing
200-gram Heavyweight 2xLP, mastered specifically for vinyl.
Includes the entire bonus disc from the original special edition, released on Side D.
Features nearly the entirety of the original high-resolution artwork, laid out for vinyl by Travis Smith.
350gsm heavyweight board triple gatefold jacket with black flood inner printing.
200gsm high-quality printed inner sleeves. (blood-music.com)

To me, it’s quite rare to find a bastion of discernable talent and ability in the daily-changing metal underworld. Yes, there are riff-daddys, soloing machines, and instant-career one-hit wonders, but what of the composers? The free-thinkers? The TRUE artists? Well, after all these years I’ve only found a few in the hundreds of thousands of faceless distortionphiles that have the capacity for musical genius; your Frank Zappa, your Vintersorg, and, above all else, your Arjen Anthony Lucassen. Ever since “Into the Electric Castle” stormed my ears, I’d been totally immersed in the amorphous, endlessly evolving musical ability of Mr. Lucassen, and that ended up spilling over into his various side projects, including his riff-heavy Star One group. “Space Metal” was a fantastic foray into progressive space rock madness which, to my dismay, was meant to be a one time affair. However, time has a way of throwing you a curve ball or two, and a new Star One album came right outta nowhere for all of us to partake in.

And so, with all those pins and needles on my feet, I dove in, wondering if all that time had been friendly…

From the first second to the last, “Victims of a Modern Age” is a spectacular disc, riddled with everything that’s made “Space Metal” as brilliant as it was, but with a different feel…a powerful, darker edge that makes it much more dramatic. And understandably so, given the subject matter (movies involving the end of the world as we know it, and us feeling fine). Whereas the first album presented a flight-and-fancy-free notion that made space travel a delightful practice, this new one displays the more monstrous and troubled side of reality, the inescapable darkness and miasmic madness of, say, a head-first dash into a black hole after a jolly jaunt through a harmless and beauteous cluster of stars. With this sort of thing, one would expect the deluges of powerful and punishing guitar/bass riffs, wieldy Hammond organ tandems, atmospheric synthesizers and monstrous drum work to cascade all over the listener with the reckless abandon that is far lacking in so many modern metal acts in this day and age. And cascade it does, with Mr. Lucassen’s incredible compositions creating an image that’s equally stunning, surreal, and barbaric in all its many intrinsic faces. When all brought together, the outside world pretty much ceases to exist, and the ever-so addictive Amazing Flight in Space is initiated, transporting both attention and imagination into eras and places unknown and unfathomed. But it’s made even better (if that were at all possible given the already incredibly high standards this disc possesses) when Arjen’s cavalcade of vocal wonderment brings those notions to penultimate life. Taking cues from the overall arrangements, the bombastics are not at all in short supply; whether it’s Floor Jansen’s siren wails, Damien Wilson’s desperate lamentations, Russell Allen’s powerful air-raid warnings or Dan Swano’s deep-and-dreary rumblings, all forms of listener have more than plenty to take in and enjoy to their hearts’ content, from the upbeat rockers of “Digital Rain” and “Human See, Human Do” to the slower, more crawling ventures of “Earth That Was” and “24 Hours”. A finer smorgasbord of musical greatness has yet to be seen in this or any very previous year.

In the end, Star One’s latest is another excursion into the dark caves of Mr. Lucassen’s twisted, yet brilliant, mind. In these days of dime-a-dozen “metal” acts, it’s always so refreshing to fall ass-backwards into an old favorite and have all it’s worth swarm over you like the enveloping black of the universe itself. Love it, love it, LOVE IT! (doomknocker, November 2nd, 2010/metal-archives.com)

Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Guitar, Analog Syntheziser, Mellotron, Hammond Organ, Vocals (Track 12, 14)
Peter Vink - Bass
Ed Warby - Drums
Gary Wehrkamp - Guitar Solo (Track 2, 3, 5, 7)
Joost van den Broek - Keyboards Solo (Track 2, 3, 5, 8, 14)
Damian Wilson - Vocals  (Track 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9b, 9c, 14)
Dan Swanö - Vocals  (Track 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9a, 9b,9c, 11)
Floor Jansen - Vocals  (Track 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9a, 9c, 14)
Sir Russell Allen - Vocals  (Track 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9a, 9b, 9c, 14)
Mike Andersson - Vocals (Track 10)
Rodney Blaze - Vocals (Track 11)
Tony Martin - Vocals (Track 13)

Versand innerhalb Deutschland (versichert mit GLS - generell innerhalb von 24 Stunden)  5,00 Euro

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