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Vanden Plas ‎–The Ghost Xperiment 2: Illumination dlp

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Description

Double album on black vinyls with gatefold cover

About a year earlier, the German progressive metal band Vanden Plas delivered the music world part one of their two part concept album, The Ghost Xperiment. Entitled Awakening, the album ended on a cliffhanger, where during a séance, Gideon Grace, the main character, at last encounters the ghosts who have haunted him since his childhood. Ghosts? Exactly! Now comes the dramatic conclusion of the story with their follow up album, The Ghost Xperiment – Illumination. “For years, I’ve felt driven by the idea of writing a ghost story that casts a different light on the genre, and … at the end leaves the audience with a plausible explanation,” author and Vanden Plas lead vocalist Andy Kuntz elucidates. As for his inspiration for the story, Kuntz came across the Phillip-Experiment, an authentic and credibly documented investigation of necromancy…literally, conjuring dead spirits. “I knew immediately that I had found the basis for the story that I had been seeking for so long.” Thus developed the story for “The Ghost Xperiment,” which continues in the second part “Illumination,” and reaches its startling conclusion. These intelligent, inventive story telling lyrics need a strong musical vehicle for delivery and Vanden Plas astounds in that respect. While the orchestral arrangements in the first album in the saga had been reduced compared to the two previous “Chronicles Of The Immortals” series, this time the progressive aspects of the band’s sound are even more apparent. German medieval rock band Saltatio Mortis joins Kuntz for a duet on the bonus track ‘Krieg kennt keine Sieger,’ Snow White Blood singer Ulli Perhonen shines in ‘Black Waltz Death’ and ‘The Ghost Engineers,’ and the backing vocals team is made up of longtime musical colleagues including Oliver Hartmann from Avantasia and Herbie Langhans from Firewind. This highly concentrated musical power, paired with unexpected twists such as in ‘Black Waltz Death’ or the 13-minute long ‘The Ouroboros’ is what makes “The Ghost Xperiment – Illumination” so incredibly gripping. In addition, with the opener ‘World is Falling Down,’ Vanden Plas has created an unbelievably driving steam hammer engine and with ‘Under the Horizon,’ a true prog anthem.

Track list:
1. When The World Is Falling Down
2. Under The Horizon
3. Black Waltz Death
4. The Lonely Psychogon
5. Fatal Arcadia
6. The Ouroboros
7. Ghost Engineers
8. Krieg Kennt Keine Sieger

Additional information

Label

Frontiers Records

Release Year

2020

Catalogue Number

FR LP 1074