Carved in Stone (Shadow Gallery Album)
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Publication |
July 11, 1995 |
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March 1994 to April 1995 |
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| Label (s) | Magna Carta Records | |||
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Title (number) |
14th |
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running time |
71:04 |
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Carl Cadden-James and Shadow Gallery |
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Studio (s) |
Shadow Gallery Studios |
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Carved in Stone is the second studio album by the US progressive metal band Shadow Gallery . It was released on Magna Carta Records in July 1995 .
Creation and publication
After Magna Carta released the band's demo as their debut album , work began on a new album and a tour of Japan was pending. In addition, Gary Wehrkamp was hired as a live support, but he soon became a permanent member of the band. Instead of touring, the new album Carved in Stone was recorded with studio drummer Kevin Soffera, produced by Carl Cadden-James and the band. Shadow Gallery, however, repeatedly had problems with the technology in their own studio, so that the recordings took over a year.
Track list
- Cliffhanger - 8:41
- Interlude 1 - 0:40
- Crystalline Dream - 5:44
- Interlude 2 - 0:43
- Don't Ever Cry, Just Remember - 6:29
- Interlude 3 - 1:03
- Warcry - 5:59
- Celtic Princess - 2:05
- Deeper Than Life - 4:32
- Interlude 4 - 0:16
- Alaska - 5:18
- Interlude 5 - 0:18
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Ghostship - 21:56
- The Gathering the Night Before - 2:42
- Voyage (instrumental) - 1:37
- Dead Calm (instrumental) - 2:32
- Approaching Storm - 2:24
- Storm - 5:38
- Enchantment (instrumental) - 3:57
- Legend - 2:54
- Hidden Track - 7:24
style
Shadow Gallery develop their progressive rock / metal audibly on the album compared to their debut. There are catchy choruses, lots of virtuoso guitar and keyboard passages that can be calm and serene as well as punchy and bombastic. In the press comparisons were made e.g. B. moved to Dream Theater and Threshold . For Marco Magin from Break Out, some passages sound too much like Dream Theater and what has become standard in the Progressive Metal scene. Wolfgang Schäfer pointed out in Rock Hard that the comparison with Dream Theater only applies in a technical - and not in a musical - respect. The band themselves said they liked the originality of 1970s bands such as Queen and Kansas . Of the newer artists, the musicians Kai Hansen and his band Gamma Ray were most impressive .
The lyrics do not form a concept album, but in the broadest sense revolve around the subject of travel . The monumental piece Ghostship was polished over eight years. The band called it their "reference song".
reception
The album was positively received by the press. Allmusic's David White praised the band's potential, songwriting and production of the album. Jochen Lohr from Babyblauen Seiten thinks that “it just doesn't get stuck, the pane is more suitable as a background splash, is simply adapted”. Henning Mangold, on the other hand, praises the "virtuosity", the "complexity" and the "variety" of the album. Break-out editor Marco Magin found the album “convincing” in its sum, despite some foreign loans, which was mainly due to Ghostship . Carved in Stone was Rock Hard album of the month in August 1995 and was included in the list of 50 progmetal milestones by eclipsed magazine.
Web links
- Carved in Stone at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Carved in Stone on the baby blue pages
Individual evidence
- ^ History . shadowgallery.com; accessed on August 7, 2015.
- ↑ a b Shadow Gallery. Carved in stone . Baby Blue Prog Reviews, Baby Blue Pages ; accessed on August 7, 2015.
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Schäfer: Shadow Gallery. Carved in stone . In: Rock Hard , No. 99; accessed on August 7, 2015.
- ↑ a b David White: Carved in Stone at Allmusic (English), accessed on August 7, 2015.
- ↑ a b Marco Magin: Shadow Gallery. Carved in stone . In: Break Out . The heavy rock music magazine. No. 6 (August / September), 1995, plates, p. 43 .
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Schäfer: Shadow Gallery. Musical shadow plays . In: Rock Hard . No. 100 , September 1995, pp. 42 f .
- ↑ eclipsed , No. 144, p. 31.