Description
Thresholds twelfth studio album ‘Dividing Lines’ is darker, heavier and even more adventurous than its predecessor, 2017’s ‘Legends of The Shires’, and reveals a band with a lot on their collective mind, while also boasting some of the most wildly inventive and melodically potent material they have ever recorded.
Despite its many tense and tumultuous moments, ‘Dividing Lines’ is also a showcase for just how much fun Threshold are having right now. Whether finding new ways to break hearts and touch souls on the streamlined, direct likes of ‘Haunted’, ‘Silenced and Lost Along The Way’, or exploring all kinds of new territory and re-tooled trademarks on elaborate epics ‘The Domino Effect and Defence Condition’, these ageless veterans are plainly in the form of their lives.
While ‘Legends Of The Shires’ presented a self-contained narrative that enabled Threshold to let their imaginations run wild, ‘Dividing Lines’ eschews the conceptual approach in favour of a more traditional group of songs, linked by a hazy but unmistakable common theme.
A collection of emotionally potent monuments to humanitys eternal turmoil, Dividing Lines may be a dark record for dark times, but at its heart lies a message of hope for better times. If the future of this planet looks bleak, at least the soundtrack will be spectacular. Dividing Lines is an album of shadows and light, of despair and hope; the human experience, rendered in dazzling, widescreen colours and performed with all the intensity and passion that has typified Thresholds more than three decades of active service. The UKs kings of prog metal are back, and ready to conquer the world all over again.
2LP Black Vinyl pressing
Tracklisting
Side A:
1. Haunted
2. Hall Of Echoes
3. Let It Burn
Side B:
1. Silenced
2. The Domino Effect
Side C:
1. Complex
2. King Of Nothing
3. Lost Along The Way
Side D:
1. Run
2. Defence Condition
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