Each track here, taken by itself, is quite good. It’s when you try to sit down and really listen to this that it can be problematic. I mean, there’s just too much of a monolithic texture here. In general, these instrumentals are essentially backdrops for guitar soloing. As I said, each number works well. It just gets old by the time the ride is over.

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Atmosphere and harder rocking space elements open this with clips from some movie playing. Around the one minute mark this fires out into hard edged progressive rock that makes me think of Dream Theater quite a bit. There are some hints of Van Halen in the mix as this continues. Joe Satriani mixed with Yngwie Malmsteen and the other two references serve as the central musical tenets of this piece. The only vocals are more movie bits.