Shadow Gallery
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Date First Available ‏ : ‎ June 2, 2019
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01KAQAFPI

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Athanasios Simotas

Progressive lyricism

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2013

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If you like music them just order this please. Nothing else here. It is quite impossible to declare a rock or metal fan and reject this one. It wil make you happy. Obscured by shadow indeed!

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Dave Mark

Good gems, but not terribly slick

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2013

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The first time I had noticed Shadow Gallery was on Last.FM when Crystalline Dream kept popping up. It was that song that made me investigate them further. While the rest of the album has decent stuff on it, I'm often let down just a bit by some of the musicianship and production values. Perhaps I'm spoiled by other artists' offerings. It is a decent album, though, and I've gotten some mileage out of listening to it... just not top shelf material.

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"Giles The Axeman"

god blessed this album !!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2008

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well i've just discovered this band and this is one great masterpiece i have in my collection this band makes your ears melt when listening to .one of the most talented bands in america i've ever come across. just buy it and it will grow on you after a few listens

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Theobalt

Who can say that this album is at least perfect????

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2005

At the age of 16 when i first started listeing metal (Iron Maiden, Manowar, then Blind Guardian and so on) there was this friend of mine (owned about 1000 cds at that time!!!) who had a music show. At some point he first plays a song called "Crystalline Dream" and then "Don't ever Cry Just Remember" by a band called Shadow Gallery. At once they drew my attention and despite the fact that this band is supposed to be progressive, the above songs don't need to be listened to a hundred times to that you can "feel" them.

Next day I get the cd and about ten years after and while Shadow Galler have come up with one more jewell (Tyrrany) and two more good albums (not a match for "C.I.S" and "Tyrrany") I write this review. Keep in mind that this cd had melted in my cd player 10 years before and now at the age of 27 I still listen to it with the same enthousiasm.

The cd is flawlless, there is no mediocre moment in the whole record. There are a lot of keyboards within the whole record which I believe adds the most to the whole album as it gives a warm and lyrical feeling to the songs. There are two ballads (Don't ever Cry, Just Remember and Alaska) while the rest of the songs move mostly in mid tempo and secondly a bit faster (see Dream Theater)

My question is this. All these years I hear that Dream Theater are the best, Dream Theater this, Dream Theater that. Don't get me wrong, I like Dream Theater a lot, have most of their albums and believe that it is a great band. Yet many times I fest a bit "tired" by trying to listen to their albums and fest that they lacked something...

Well what I wanted to hear in progressive metal I found it in Shadow Gallery. It seems to me that this album spoke to my heart and every single melody, every solo and tune that existed made sense. I didn't have to try hard to "understand" the songs or listen to the strange riffs that change all the time and are suposedly sound like progressive metal.

All I had to do is listen to music...So how come after all these years everybody talks about Dream Theater and not Shadow Gallery? I never understood that. Maybe because their last two albums weren't that much.

Moreover, I believe that if you like progressive metal and bands like Dream Theater, Sympony X but with a more "lyrical" and "romantic" touch and less technical riffs you will definitely like "Carved In Stone" and "Tyrrany" (which sounds more mature and evolving".

If you want to listen to something now that a decade later will make you happy and privileged to having listened to this kind of music then get this album. There but a few metal albums from the 650 that I have that stay in my cd player still...!!

-----Lastly I have to mention that this album together with tyrrany have a sence of optimism that overwhellms you when listening to it. It's not a happy kind of feeling like Helloween for example...but its close. Its a feelling that makes you feel whole, complete and gives you great energy for the rest of the day...Well at least this is how i feel-------

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Burak

Remarkable improvement over the debut, but not at their peak yet

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2018

In Carved In Stone, Shadow Gallery succeeds in writing both thrilling and soothing music to tell stories; the vocals and the accompanying instrumental parts and instrumental sections fit very well to this aim. The very same ambition was present in the debut album, but the outcome, though encouraging for the future, was not satisfactory yet. Cliffhanger, for instance, is almost a musical peak, combining hard-rock rhythmic sections with thrilling movie-like chord changes, which help unfold the story, and impressively orchestrated instrumental sections, which elevate the tension even more. Crystalline Dream and Deeper Than Life are both great hard-rock songs with great vocal melodies and progressive sections, and the music successfully gives a visual picture of thrill and excitement. Don't Ever Cry, Just Remember, and Warcry, showing the sentimental side of the band, are piano driven songs complemented with interesting chords, melodic&heavy chorus and cinematic and clever instrumental passages, which range from a flute solo to galloping rhythm sections. Celtic Princess is a good experimentation of acoustic guitar-piano duo on odd time signatures; having a Kansas and New Age feel at the same time. Alaska is an acoustic song, which is possibly influenced by Pink Floyd and Queensryche, again complemented by a flute solo. The Segues between the songs require mentioning, as they, most of the time, herald the following song using the themes or chords of the song in a synthesized setting, giving an ethereal feeling. The last song Ghost Ship, consisting of eight parts, is the only flaw of the album, I believe. Though it has great moments, a section such as Dead Calm, which is supposed to create a ghastly atmosphere, or a part such as Voyage, supposed to give a energetic and mystic feeling, or Legend, supposed to give a satisfactory ending to the long piece, are simply boring. Though there are exciting instrumental passages, such as the group performance in Storm, the new age piece in Ending and the piano solo in Enchantment, the whole work feels disconnected, and shows that SG is not ready to pull off such a challenge yet.

All in all, it is a very well constructed album, which clearly shows that SG has brought a dark, exciting, misty yet full-of-hope visual aspect to progressive metal. It is this aspect of SG music, which makes them so special; even the mighty Dream Theater have never been able to paint a picture, as lively as SG, with their music.

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Ingvar Vares

5 +

Reviewed in Germany on July 3, 2023

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Arno Gündisch

Progrock at its Best

Reviewed in Germany on December 26, 2014

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Man nehme eine Prise Rush, würze sie mit einer Löffelspitze Pink Floyd, gebe dazu noch jeweils eine Prise Deep Purple- und Rainbow-Würze, vergesse nicht den Teelöffel Queen-Bombast, nehme dazu noch zwei Teelöffel Originalität, verrühre alles sorgfältig und serviere es auf CD. Und lausche andächtig dem Resultat...
Shadow Gallery haben mit "Carved in Stone" einen Meilenstein des Progrocks der Neunziger geschaffen. Einzelne Songs herauszupicken, fällt mir schwer, der Song-Mammut "Ghost Ship" wird aber jedes Prog-Herz höher schlagen lassen, mit "Don't ever cry, just remember" und "Warcry" folgen noch zwei Halbballaden der Sonderklasse, den Rest soll jeder für sich selbst entdecken. Wem "Deeper Than Life" ein bißchen allzusehr nach Dream Theater klingt, hat gut zugehört-haben John Petrucci & Co. aber nicht dieselben Vorbilder? Mike Bakers Stimme (R.I.P., Mike!) läßt sich ohnehin nicht kopieren.
Lediglich der Hidden Track fällt mit seinem Ambient-Intro etwas aus dem Rahmen-da muss jemand aber arg lange klopfen, bis ihm die Tür (zum Progrock-Himmel?) aufgetan wird, das folgende Vangelis-lastige Instrumental entschädigt aber für die Wartezeit.
Fünf himmlische Punkte und eine strikte Kaufempfehlung für jeden Prog-und Melodic Rock-Fan!

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masa28

SHADOW　GALLERYの代表作！

Reviewed in Japan on July 28, 2003

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　曲目リストが全8曲になってますが、曲と曲の間に間奏曲があり（①～③、⑥～⑧の間）、それぞれのの楽曲同士を繋げており、前13曲で構成されています。なかなか面白いアイディアだと思います。（トラックは全20。）
　さて、本作ではバンドは６人編成となり、また楽曲・構成共に急成長を遂げております。まさか、セカンドアルバムでこれ程の完成度の高いアルバムを発表していたとはまさに驚きでした。次々作「レガシー」に続きのある①CriffHanger、①からの流れが素晴らしい③Crystalline Dream、21分台の大作⑬Ghostship等聴き所満載の作品です。
　私は本作で彼らの大ファンになりました。必聴アルバムです！！

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音妙師からす

幻想的な世界に酔いしれます

Reviewed in Japan on May 16, 2004

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知名度を獲得した2nd。全体を小曲で繋げ、あたかも一大絵巻を描いたかの如きアルバム構成になっている。ダイナミックな展開を見せる1曲目、そして一転して曲名にも象徴されるような、まるで触ると壊れるかのようなメロディが実に美しい3曲目。フルートが印象的なバラードの5曲目。一気にハードに転じる9曲目から軽めが心地よいバラードの11曲目へ。1stにあったような良曲になりきれなかった潜在能力が一気に開放されて溢れ出した。これはもう見事としか言いようが無い。20分を越える大作も、起伏に富ませた構成でサントラの如き展開を見せ、最後はシークレット・トラックで静かに終える。微妙なバランスがマジックを生み、幻想的な世界を演出。そしてまた何と言ってもこの世界観に見事にマッチした、儚いヴォーカルが非常に良い。

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