I really love this album. The mix of sounds here is extreme. There are things like folk music, full classical arrangements and more mixed with progressive rock and even doom metal. I love music that mashes unlikely things together, so this is obvious for me. It’s also done so well that it’s exceptional.

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The sounds of the sea start this. Then a folk prog styled movement rises up to bring us into the musical portion of the proceedings. It drops before the one minute mark to a little weirdness. Then it pounds in with something that’s equal parts doom metal and crazed progressive rock. It drops to mellower territory for the first vocals. At the end of the verse it powers to that same doom metal meets prog sound. The drop for the next section of singing is less complete mellow texture. The piece continues to shift and evolve from there. I could see this being called heavy metal, but it’s far too proggy for that title to really fit. It continues alternating between the harder edged instrumental sections and mellower vocal movements. Around the five minute mark a more adventurous movement serves as the backdrop for another vocal section. It’s definitely prog rock. That styled movement becomes the “go to” for the vocal sections as the alternating pattern continues.