For the Love of Art and the Making

Beyond Twilight (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 2006)
• Original Release Date: April 25, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nightmare Records
• ASIN: B000FEBW5S
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,357 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. For the Love of Art and the Making

Editorial Reviews

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ALBUM OF THE MONTH / Rock Hard Magazine- (France) Friday 13th Zine - England - 5 out of 5 / Revolution Music - Denmark - 6 out of 6 / Aardschok Magazine - The Netherlands - 95 out of 100 / Powermetal - Denmark 97 out of 100 /Passzio Rock Klub - Hungary - 10 out of 10 --Several sources

Product Description

The new album - For The Love Of Art And The Making is one ongoing composition containing 43 sections. It is 1 track of about 40 minutes. The concept is compounded by 43 sections and 3 hidden sections. The sections are (pieces of a puzzle). Lyrics and music both play important roles. Each section has it's own life/story and every section is a brick of the whole puzzle. Depending on in which order you listen to the pieces of the puzzle you'll get a new picture of For The Love Of Art And The Making. So you can really understand this piece of work in numerous different ways. It's up to you how you gather the puzzle.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not up to prior recordings, January 28, 2007

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Tom Sawyer (United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: For the Love of Art and the Making (Audio CD)

This cd is a little strange. The "tracks" are almost like snippets of song parts strung together. Many of them are under a minute and just run together without you knowing it. Supposedly, you can put this on "random" for a different cd at every listening. Unique but kind of weird. I tend to like the repeating of parts of songs that I really like. This is good but not up to the standard of their prior albums which are very good. Worth buying for sure though.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most incredible thing I've heard in a loooong time!, November 9, 2006

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Steven Konopa "skonopa" (Fredericksburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: For the Love of Art and the Making (Audio CD)

I bought a copy of this album directly from record label that distributed it while attending ProgPowerUSA VII in Atlanta just this past September. I was a little skeptical if this was actually going to be anything good. It was so unusual and "different" that I did not know what to make of it. Think about it - a single 40-minute long song divided up into 43 parts. Ooookay, but it still intriqued me and having listened to Beyond Twilight's previous albums, most notably _Section X_, I figured it had to at least be decent. Boy, was I in for a very pleasent surprise!

The first time I heard this, I was completely blown away! WOW! Friggan UNBELIEVABLE! There has never been an album that just completely had me blown away like this one did, and I've been listening to metal for a very long time, right from the early days of Judas Priest and Black Sabbeth. I honostly think there is absolutly nothing that I've heard in the mainstream that will even come close to the brilliance of this particular album! The only thing that I can think of that I've listened to recently that even comes close are two Aryeon albums - _The Final Experiment_ and _Into the Electric Castle_ (both hardly considered "mainstream"). I've listened to this thing a good dozen times plus since I bought it and it amazes me every single time - and this is just listening to it straight through. I'll need to try the "random shuffle" trick as mentioned by others.

The music itself is just so brilliantly composed and played. Everything from beautiful orchestral parts to the hard driven "chunky" power-metalish guitars and double-bass. The vocals are just incredible in thier own right, complete with full choruses. This is indeed has a very big symphonic and epic feel. I tell everybody that this is basically what you get when you cross a symphony orchestra with a prog metal band! I am just in awe in the composition itself. I am willing to bet that something like this is not easy to compose, let alone, actually play to the caliber displayed on this record. The talent displayed here is just staggering! Just amazing what happens when a band actually produces music for the love of the art instead of just trying to make money (and most likely one reason why I thought just about anything I've heard on the mainstream (commercial FM radio) pretty much sucked in the past 5 years or so).

The actual recording quality of the record is also phenomenal. It is very clean and very dynamic, with nary a hint of dynamic compression detected on here. The detail and clarity is just incredible. If at all remotely possible - listen to this on a good, high-end audio system (how I love my Klipsch Reference and B&K gear!). You will be blown away! A cheap $30 boom-box just cannot do this album justice. This has become one of my reference disks for checking out audio systems. I honostly cannot think of any flaws to take away from this album, other than I wish there were more. But I guess if it was too long, it would probably ended up just get ting bogged down.

This is most definitly recommended by anyone even remotely interested in power/progressive metal, especially of the epic/symphonic persuasion.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very good prog metal, January 20, 2007

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Michael A. Carra "mike carra" (bronx, new york) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: For the Love of Art and the Making (Audio CD)

this album was a pleasent surprise to me. i always stayed clear of these guys cause i did not think i'd like em. boy was i wrong. i love this album. the whole album is one song broken up in a bunch of tracks so u can skip through them. the musicanship is great. the guitarist is really good. plays some great leads. and the keyboard player is also very impressive. the bass and drums are really tight. they keep some wird timeing. the singer is very good. he has a great voice. i love his harmonies. the song itself is very strange. never really heard anything like it. it defidently is very original. can be very heavy at times. and also has some swingy jazzy parts. my only complaint is a few points seemed like they wernt running fluidly enough. they seemed to drag a bit. but other than that it was really good. i recommend this to any prog fans. fans of dream theater, symphony x, and zero hour will probly like this album allot.