Vanden Plas: The Seraphic Clockwork

Vanden Plas: The Seraphic Clockwork
Frontiers Records - June 22, 2010
by Edwin van Hoof

I have stated it before and I will do so again; Vanden Plas are the musical conversion of Dream Theater in their early years. Where the American prog metal band focusses more on their musical abilities and tends to lose sight of the big theme, Vanden Plas is more focussed on delivering a matured and arranged song instead. Their craftmanship is eceptional and they manage to find new angles to enrich their progressive metal songs. Inflict them with modern fragments, or arrange them like one would not expect. Songs twist and turn and arrangements are keen. "The Seraphic Clockwork" is another one of those musical highlights in melodic progressive metal , without doubt their finest hour!

Two typical Vanden Plas songs kick off this new endeavor. "Frequency"...

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