MP3 Hourglass - Subconscious

If you often lament, "You know, it's a shame that Pink Floyd will never play another live show" or "I wish I had been around during the Dennis DeYoung years or Styx!" then you have successfully stumbled upon an up-and-coming band that

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ROCK: Progressive Rock, METAL: Progressive Metal



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So back to Hourglass, we're talking about a band that has one foot in the classic progressive style, like Rush and Yes, and the other foot in the modern progressive-metal style, more like Dream Theater and Spock's Beard. Inbetween, they often sound like Styx, Queensryche, Kansas, and many other classic and progressive rock bands that you know and love.

The band was formed in 1999, with shredding guitarist Brick Williams as the constant in 5 years of lineup changes. Classically-trained keyboardist Eric Robertson returns from a hiatus after the first album (This Lonely Time and Place) and drummer John Dunston continues his frenzied and powerful playing that marked the second album (The Journey Into). Newcomers Cody Walker (transcendent, theatrical vocals) and Clark Woolstenhulme (grooving on the bass) fill out the lineup for Subconscious.

This new album tackles several disparate lyrical topics via equally-disparate musical styles. The Hammer's Strike is an epic, rocking censure of the failings of the justice system. Mists of Darkness is an exploration of emotional struggles, at times being owerpowered and at times overcoming the frailties we humans experience. Exit Wounds is a 7-piece story of a man who fights and dies for freedom and the reactions of the family members he leaves behind. All this and more, on Subconscious.