Reviewed by Stephen Romone Lewis
Released: 1980 Faithful Breath Back On My Hill Genre: They Say Prog/Hard-Rock Rating: 3 out of 5 Highlights: Die Mörderbiene (Ed. Note: This is a bonus track on the 2007 re-issue) I love me some prog. This has some sweet, moogy sounding synths. There is an abundance of key and GTR solos. Solos contain some tasty licks but lack the technical proficiency of top shelf progsters. No weird time signatures or interesting tonal exploration and only one 17 minute epic, so not proggy enough for me. There are some nice harmonies, but the lead singer sounds like he’s auditioning for a part in Pippin. My favorite tune was Die Mörderbiene, the only one sung in German. It’s in 6/8, has some shifting tempos that held my interest and a nice synth solo in the style of early Styx. I wouldn’t call this hard/rock but that’s the way they are labeled on YouTube. According to the only bio I could find they started in Germany in the late 60s playing rock. Over the course of many personnel changes, they morphed into a watered-down prog outfit and went full hard-rock in ‘85. Absolutely nothing bad about anything on this LP. Also nothing to get excited about either.
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