Instrumental Guitar - Heavy Metal, Classical

Original 2000

Mint condition

Credits:

Maestro Alex Gregory - Conductor, First Pentalin
John Levesque - Voice 1
Barbara Dietrich - Voice 2
Otto von Fünf - Second Pentalin
Andreas Friedrich Kant - Pentatar 1
Martin Van Zeyl - Pentatar 2
DJ Penta First - Celloblaster, Pentacello
Ty Longley Second - Celloblaster, Pentacello
Robert Ryder - Pentabass
Max Vindaloo - Groove Drums
Bernie Dressel - Harmonic Drums (Drummephone)
Albert Lee Clean - Pentatar Solos

Tracks:

1. Overture - At the gates of hell
2. The sun of midnight (Nostradamus predicts!)
3. Alchemy, eulogy?
4. Six days
5. History
6. S.O.S.
7. Five are the sword!
8. In the name of his Lords
9. The black knight
10. Life preys on life
11. Visitors
12. The kingdom of Satan
13. Another millennium?

This is an ambitious project: Alex Gregory intends to achieve nothing less than the complete overthrow of rock'n'roll instrumentation as we know it. In the place of ordinary guitars, basses, and drums, Gregory and his cohorts use instruments from his Pentasystem line—fretted, 5-string, solidbody electric instruments tuned in fifths, ranging from the Pentabass to the Pentatar to the Pentalin—and the Drummephone, a set of electronic drums tuned so that their pitches correspond to the chord progressions the rest of the ensemble is playing. (It's kind of like having a snare, bass, tom-tom, ride, and hi-hat for each note in the scale.)

However, as though that weren't ambitious enough, this project also attempts to bring back old-school progressive metal, a genre with—let's face it—somewhat limited appeal. Whether you find Another Millennium? ultimately enjoyable or merely intriguing may depend on whether you liked Rush, Impelliterri, Metallica, or even Black Sabbath and Dio back in their day.