The second album from this US band.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of guitars, bass, cello, bouzouki, organ, synths, keyboards, mellotron, piano, drums, percussion and vocals.
This is their follow up album to their brilliant 1995 debut album The Light. The album that more or less re-started the US prog rock scene after it's long hibernation.
Beware Of Darkness gives us another hour of more or less the same stuff The Light gave us.
That means symphonic prog with a lot of Kansas and Gentle Giant influences.
The songs are pretty long throughout and the musicianship is top notch. My only gripe here is that the guitars could had been better and we could have got some longer guitar solos.
The vocals is really good.
All the songs here are good to superb. This album is not a good as The Light. But not by much. There is no really outstanding tracks here. But there are some superb melody lines and details scattered around this album.
Beware Of Darkness is a great album and one I would highly recommend.
4 points
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