Now -- what are you listening to? V2

NP:

Maybe not Spectre Within or Awaken the Guardian, but they're different to those even if those are the John Arch FW classics. 

I struggle to get into most of FW with Ray. Nothing to do with his singing, just have been able to get the material to really click. 

NP:

Finally picked up a copy of this. It could become a subject of my revisited reviews series. I was more lukewarm to this at the time of release, but hearing it on CD for the first time having more or less forgotten it and not listening to their other stuff as much as I was at the time is allowing me to appreciate this one more in its own right. 

I wouldn't want to listen to a whole album like that though.

Anyway, this morning's plays so far:

I'm quickly coming to see this one as a massive return to form.

The first album of The Neal Morse Band entity. A little different to Morse solo stuff, with more hard rocking/heavy parts than most of his albums have. Probably the best he's done (of the ones I've heard) since Sola Scriptura. There's two more The Neal Morse Band albums after this that I haven't heard (both sprawling double albums).

Now:

Pretty solid alt metal tinged prog. Bit jarring to find a rap metal track slapped in the middle though. Hopefully it's the only one. 

Now:

Nice, one of my favorites. What'd you think of it?