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Forbidden Fruit

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Elegy is way underrated and unknown to the progressive genre world.. Fans of progressive metal must pick Forbidden Fruit up. I stumbled upon Ian Parry's vocals from Consortium Project 3 : Terra Incognita. He has a powerful and melodic vocal lines. From there I went on to purchase CP 2 and 1. So I would have the complete set. I was thrilled to own all 3 cds as all 3 are superb progressive metal albums. Then I also did a little bit of historical identification. Ian Parry was from Elegy!!! And I went ahead and purchase 4 albums.. State Of Mind, Principles Of Pain, Manifestation Of Fear and Forbidden Fruit. Elegy is not those kind of Prog Band for anyone to liked the very 1st time they listen to their songs. It is progressive alright with tons of odd times signatures and displacement of rhythm and drum beats. You have to constantly listen again and again so that it shines out. From the first time when you listen to it.. you know these guys are awesome with their instrumentation technique, skills and their song arrangement. You loved it but you just couldn't grasp the structure of the song just yet. It leaves you wanting to listen more and more each time you finished the entire disc. Elegy is a band with sound musicians and musical abilities written all over their songs. I have been listening to all 4 albums tons of times and have yet to grasp every single song because of the odd song structure....It is hard to even play their songs..... My high recommendation is those 4 albums...You need to check thes guys out because you will missed out a whole lot if you don't. Think you know what progressive metal is?? Think again!!! Elegy is another whole level of progressive metal. Challenge yourself and see you could digest ELEGY!!!

Well, I have heard almost all Elegy's recordings and this really blows my mind. Ian Parry is such a great singer! and I love their "State of Mind" album, but "Manifestation of Fear" dissapointed me a little. I really like Elegy's work in the past and for me "Supremacy" is their best.
Forbidden Fruit starts with a fast rocker named "Icehouse" that is really good with an awesome catchy bridge to the chorus, one the greatest songs in the album is "Force Majeure" (song 2) a really fast heavy metal song that will blow your mind!! incredible!!. And the other favorites for me are the great "Behind the tears" (so 'darn' good!), "'Til eternity" and "The great charade" (excellent prog-metal!).

I highly recommend this album to anyone who likes some of prog-metal or heavy. For me this is Ian Parry's greatest album with the band... I hope they could delight us with a new work soon!!

Elegy's music is a mix between power metal/progressive with classic hard rock influences. The musical dexterity of each member is beyond credibility. Elegy's music is not commercial and is not easy to get at first, but taste is developed slowly until it clicks. This is the type of good music that evolves over time.

Ian Parry's lyrics are well thought out, often expressing many metaphors and analogies. This album is the first featuring Patrick Rondat (ex-Jan Michel Jarre) on guitars. At first I was skeptical of Forbidden Fruit because departed original guitarist, Henk Van der Laars, had enormeous talent. Dirk Bruinenberg at drums is phenomenal. To me, he is one of the top ranked drummers today, someone not to be overlooked (check him out with Adagio, Consortium Project and most recently with Patrick Rondat's solo band).

It's very regretful that Elegy is one of those bands that are not that well known. Maybe it's because of its management or music label, etc. But this CD truly rocks. It has more upbeat sound to it than its predecessor, Manifestation of Fear, which is also a tremendous effort. This band deserves more recognition!

elegy doesn't seem to miss henk! ian parry is great on the vocals and patrick rondat has more than compensated for henk! great album!

I was surprised about this release, i got all other Elegy CD digitally remastered using 24-bit technology from Metal Mind Production that sound so great, and its strange that Metal Mind Production did not release this one digitally remastered. so i was afraid that this CD had that same bad sound that the older once i have, But i am so happy this one sound great. if you are a Elegy fan buy this one.

have a alot of the Elegy songs from each album they are all good like the other reviewers have said it takes a few listens to really get into them. Excellent musicianship, production and songwriting. If your into Vanden Plas, Threshold etc..you'll like Elegy!