Description
The End of the Age is the sole release by the American four piece progressive rock band Another World Production from Wisconsin, independently released by the band in 1980 and pressed in only 500 copies. Featuring Steven Cumber, Steve Appolloni, Gary Cumber, and Mark Redlin. [Bass player Mark S. Redlin (1954 – 2012) played with the band Freight and Another World Productions.]
Wisconsin xian prog guitar rock. Tolkien inspired cover. Opens with melancholy downer strum sadness, moves into proggy xian with hard rock guitar riffs, symphonic elements. Flowing melodic turns. Nice mix of winsome melody and dual guitar wailing. [Ron Moore]
All the elements of good guitar-based progressive rock can be found in this Wisconsin male foursome’s excellent hard-to-find custom release. A variety of expressions gives the music a lot of depth. «He Is Real», «Tales of Evil», «What Will Become», the apocalyptic title track (which sounds a lot like Barclay James Harvest) and the instrumental «Lessons In Seven» all check in with an artful heavy rock sound, including several driving dual electric guitar side trips (the kind DeGarmo & Key had fun doing in the early days). «I Say Hello» and «Reprise» begin and end the set with a lush symphonic presence – a stately melding of acoustic guitars, piano and mellotron-like string orchestration. «Tomorrow» and «I Pray Some Day» are gentle stirring ballads with rich acoustic guitar melodies. Quite a treasure here, housed in an intriguing Tolkienesque cover. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “I Say Hello”
A2. “Now I Sing”
A3. “He Is Real”
A4. Tomorrow”
A5. “Tales of Evil”
Side Two
B1. “End of the Age”
B2. “What Will Become”
B3. “Lessons In Seven”
B4. “I Pray Some Day”
B5. “Reprise”
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