13.02.2008.
Anglagard - Epilog (1994) (@256)
(Review from progreviews.com, progarchives.com)
Anglagard's Epilog manages to do what seemed less likely, to top their excellent debut album.
While Hybris featured some moments of somberness, Epilog finds this emotion intensified in an all-instrumental setting which is sometimes aggressive, sometimes contemplative and almost always heavy with wistfulness and stoicism. The music sometimes sounds closer to the band's Scandinavian roots than the more overt symphonic progressive of their first album. Flute and mellotron are both given prominent roles in defining the morose nature of the sound here, while electric guitar and organ are often at the forefront of the harder sections. The album concludes with a brief piece on solo piano, preventing a feeling of closure and opting instead to finish the album in the disquieting mood that has prevailed throughout.
Hardly to oversight, "Epilog" is the complementary phase to "Hybris". Can't get one without the other. Absolutely Swedish, completely bold and musically unexpected.
Line-up :
- Mattias Olsson / drums, cymbals and percussion
- Johan Hogberg / bass
- Thomas Johnson / Hammond organ, mellotrons and other keyboards
- Jonas Engdegard / guitars
- Tord Lindman / guitars
- Anna Holmgren / flute
with
- Asa Eklund / voice
- Martin Olofsson / violin
- Karin Hansson / viola and double bass
- Jan Christoff Norlander / cello
Track List :
01. Prolog (2:00)
02. Hostsejd (15:32)
03. Rosten (0:14)
04. Skogsranden (10:48)
05. Sista Somrar (13:10)
06. Saknadens Fullhet (2:00)
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