The sixth album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
Two guests added additional male and female vocals.
This is the follow up album to their best album so far... the 2005 opus The Dreams Of Men. That was a truly great album and one of the better albums in the neo-prog genre.
The band returned six years later with the one hour long XXV opus.
We are still deep into the neo-prog territory. No less and no more.
Some of the music sounds like it has been hibernating for the last quarter of a century too. Some of the music is big, bold and heavy too. It is theatrical too with some narrations and rock opera stuff.
Then we get some 1980s like thin vocals which is not particular good. The sound also leaves a lot to be desired.
There are some good stuff here. But most of this album falls flat on it's face and this album is one big disappointment.
2 points
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