Bigelf "Into The Maelstrom"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Progressive Rock
Label: InsideOut
Release date: March 3, 2014 (Europe), April 1, 2014 (USA)
Tracklist: 
01. Incredible Time Machine (03:58)
02. Hypersleep (05:37)
03. Already Gone (03:28)
04. Alien Frequency (04:14)
05. The Professor & The Madman (05:59)
06. Mr. Harry McQuhae (06:13)
07. Vertigod (03:58)
08. Control Freak (02:51)
09. High (07:10)
10. Edge Of Oblivion (06:33)
11. Theater Of Dreams (04:01)
12. ITM (08:09)
   I. Destination Unknown
   II. Harbinger Of Death
   III. Memorie

Line-up: 
Damon Fox - vocals, keyboards
Mike Portnoy - drums
Luis Carlos Maldonado - guitars

Duffy Snowhill - bass

Description/Reviews: 

Into The Maelstrom is a decidedly different approach from the hell’s circus-show of Cheat The Gallows, and even though that album was built as a send-off to the Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers album, there’s actually a stronger dose of Beatles influence on Into the Maelstrom. On top of that, there’s still plenty of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, and Alice Cooper influences abounding. The album, like much of Bigelf’s career, plays like a loving tribute to a bygone era.
This is also the first Bigelf album that is the result of a single creative vision. Previous efforts had always been collaborations between Damon Fox and whoever was in the band at the time, and in the case of Cheat The Gallows, that was just the result of the creative vision of the band’s entire history. Damon on his own is less inclined to the excess and explosiveness that made Cheat The Gallows a jaw-dropping extravaganza, but that’s not to say that these moments are entirely gone. The musical introduction of “Hypersleep”, the guitar solo of “Already Gone”, and the front end of the album’s closer “ITM” are still rich in the bombastic DNA that makes the band great. Still, the songs are carried more by vocal melodies than in the past. The result is still phenomenal, if a little bit less distinct.

Read the full review by  Mark Nagy at blackwindmetal.com

Media/Samples
Control Freak
Alien Frequency

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