Empyrios – это брутальный и НЕ неоклассический вариант Symphony X. Слушаю их вторую работу «The Glorious Sickness» - ну, как будто новое творение сэра Рассела Аллена и компании. В начале рецензии я сказал "брутальный вариант", и это действительно так. На пластинке есть гроулинг, местами бластбиты и вообще звучит всё чертовски угарно и жёстко, то есть имеем эдакий модерн-прог-пауэр-метал. Записано всё идеально, сыграно на высочайшем уровне и вообще звучит весьма жирно и вкусно. Хитами пластинка не блещет, но сама по себе наполнена сильными и крепкими песнями. Релиз стал достойным продолжением достойного дебюта, так что рекомендую «The Glorious Sickness» всем поклонникам современного прог-метала!

Поскольку поляки ни много ни мало сотворили настоящий шедевр в жанре «эпического» дум-метал. На альбоме шесть роскошных героико-романтических саг (продолжительностью 6-7 минут каждая): обворожительная в своей простоте мелодика, убедительно мощный и фактурный грув, жгучий гитарный риффаж, головокружительные сольные проходы, сюжетно-лавкрафтовская лирика на английском языке и… (сюрприз-сюрприз) великолепно поставленный, чувственный вокал – распевный, высокий и чистый (в манере покойного Ronnie James Dio или Jan Alfredo Marcolin), иногда с эхом второго плана (искусность этого «бэк-суппота» стоит особо отметить). Исполнено все мастерски и сбалансировано столь точно, что в «неопытность» авторов верится с трудом – такое ощущение, что у каждого из задействованных в проекте артистов за плечами многолетний профессиональный опыт…

Schlangensonne (рус. Солнце змей) — восьмой студийный альбом немецкой блэк-дэт-группы Eisregen.

Похоже, группа в своем развитии движется от пауэра в сторону арт-рока или хотя бы неопрога. Отдельные тому свидетельства можно было услышать уже на предыдущем альбоме Shine, здесь же это стало еще более различимым. Возможно, произошло это благодаря участию знаменитого Карла Грума (Threshold и мн. др.) - он выступил сопродюсером альбома и даже немного поиграл на нем. Так или иначе, композиции усложнились, аранжировки стали более изысканными, гитарист и основной автор Ланвалл частенько играет не риффами, характерными для тяжелого рока, а в стиле Гилмора/Ротери. Есть мини-эпики и красивые инструменталы.

Todestage (рус. Дни смерти) — десятый студийный альбом немецкой блэк-дэт-группы Eisregen.

Discovery is notable in that it was the first ELO album not to feature their resident string trio of Mik Kaminski, Hugh McDowell and Melvyn Gale, although they did make an appearance on the Discovery music videos.
In one of his earliest jobs, comedian/actor Brad Garrett, dressed in Middle Eastern clothes and turban, appears on the back cover as the menacing palace guard who is drawing his scimitar.

The album is originally issued on the Jet label in various countries however was corrected to epic shortly after. Europe's CD releases were on CDEPC26467 (Epic) in March 1986. The US (ZK40048) and Japan (32DP407) CD releases were on CBS Associated.

The track "Endless Lies" features Lynne doing a vocal delivery reminiscent of Roy Orbison. Lynne said in a 2013 interview: "I played Roy [Orbison] 'Endless Lies' in his house, and I went, 'This is me trying to copy you in the middle,; have a listen'. He listened and he chuckled, and he went, 'That's actually pretty good'." The song was originally recorded for the double LP version of Secret Messages, but was removed from Secret Messages when that album was downscaled to a single album. It reappears on Balance of Power in a slightly reworked and more compact form.

Bandleader Jeff Lynne took a one-man-band approach to the recording, doing the production, guitar work, synthesizers, and percussion on the album mostly by himself, though keyboardist Richard Tandy made some key musical contributions as well. Describing their recording process, Richard Tandy said that "the usual way was to have a stack of keyboards in the control room, and me and Jeff [Lynne] playing along to a drum track, and Bev [Bevan] adding his things later."

A New World Record is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was released on 15 October 1976, by United Artists Records in the United States and on 19 November 1976, by Jet Records in the United Kingdom. A New World Record marked ELO's shift towards shorter pop songs, a trend which would continue across their career.

Alone in the Universe is the thirteenth studio album by British rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), and the first credited to Jeff Lynne's ELO. The moniker came out from Lynne as a response to ELO tribute and imitation bands, who repeatedly used ELO for promoting their own tours. Released on 13 November 2015, the album is the first of new original material credited to the group since Zoom in 2001, and the second since the original group's disbandment in 1986. The album was met with generally favourable reviews, peaking at number two on the Billboard Top Rock Albums and number four on the UK Albums Chart, where it has been certified Platinum.

Afterglow is the third box set compilation by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was released in 1990 with liner notes by music critic and editor Ira Robbins of Trouser Press. A different two-CD compilation with identical artwork was issued simultaneously under the title The Very Best of The Electric Light Orchestra.

On the Third Day is the third studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), and the first to be recorded without input from Roy Wood. It was released in the United States in November 1973 by United Artists Records, and in the United Kingdom on 14 December 1973 by Warner Bros. Records. From this album on, the word The was dropped from the band's name (other than The Night the Light Went On in Long Beach which was one of their live albums). The album was reissued on 12 September 2006.

The Electric Light Orchestra is the debut studio album by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in December 1971 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records. In the United States, the album was released in March 1972 as No Answer, after a misunderstood telephone message made by a United Artists Records executive asking about the album name; the caller, having failed to reach the ELO contact, wrote down "no answer" in his notes, and this was misconstrued to be the name of the album. It is one of two albums to not feature keyboardist Richard Tandy, the other being 2015's Alone in the Universe.

ELO 2 is the second studio album by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1973. In the US, the album was released as Electric Light Orchestra II. It was the band's last album to be released by the Harvest label, the last (in the UK) on which the band used the definite article The in their name, and the one that introduced their abbreviated name 'ELO'.