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Lucid Dreaming - The Chronicles Pt. I (2013)













Year : 2013
Style : Melodic Power Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 120 mb

Bio:

Lucid Dreaming is the brainchild of Elvenpath guitarist Till Oberboßel.A project created to tell a fantasy story with the voices of some of the most extraordinary singers of the (underground) Metal scene.No, not another "Metal Opera". Yes, a fascinating listening experience that has everything Metal needs.The first album is entiteld "The Chronicles Pt. I". It was unleashed upon this and other worlds on August 2nd, 2013!

Album:

LUCID DREAMING is recent one-man project by Till Oberboßel (ELVENPATH), that can be dubbed, to Oberboßel's dismay, a "Metal Opera". A typical Power Metal fan would have mixed feelings about this release. The album also features a myriad of guest musicians and especially vocalists that are somewhat "underground".The music is downright, rather mediocre Power Metal overloaded with ungodly fast tempos, multilayered anthem type male vocals but not short of female vocals either. Obviously, the point of this project is basically creating the typical "Epic" feeling of Power Metal with long tracks of mostly six, seven or even eleven minutes. Oberboßel showcased a decent amount of talent as a guitarist of the genre, yet the songwriting is still relatively weak. It's definitely not the kind of material I'd revisit one day again after listening for the first time.Well, there's not much to be said about this album. There are some fairly good moments, yet it lacks some edge and hooks to keep you captivated longer. ¨

Line Up:

Till Oberboßel Guitars - See also: Elvenpath, ex-Abramelin, ex-Satanic Wizard, ex-Ausgebrannter Kadaver, ex-Endless Pain, ex-Kiffed Elephant, ex-Nostradamus, ex-Thunder Gods
Alexx Stahl (Roxxcalibur)
Chris Marino (Scarlatyna)
Dragutin Kremenovic (Elvenpath)
Eve Kreuzer (Illusoria)
Jason Conde-Houston (Skelator)
Jordan Cutajar (Nomad Son, Frenzymono)
Jutta Weinhold (ex-Zed Yago, Jutta Weinhold Band)
Jvo Julmy (ex-Emerald)
Leo Stivala (Forsaken, Reflection)
Ruth Knepel (Opalessence)
Thassilo Herbert (Dragonsfire)

Tracklist:

01. Introduction 01:01
02. Motherless Child 07:38
03. The Quest for the White Pig 06:44
04. Side by Side 07:25
05. To Caer Dathyl 11:34
06. Swords for Prydain 08:04
07. Land of Darkness 06:10
08. Where Evil Rides 07:01
09. The Price 07:53
10. No Turning Back 06:40
11. Farewell 06:03




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Lucid Dreaming - The Chronicles Pt. II (2017)











Year : 2017
Style : Melodic Power Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 115 mb

Bio:

Lucid Dreaming is the brainchild of Elvenpath guitarist Till Oberboßel.A project created to tell a fantasy story with the voices of some of the most extraordinary singers of the (underground) Metal scene.No, not another "Metal Opera". Yes, a fascinating listening experience that has everything Metal needs.The first album is entiteld "The Chronicles Pt. I". It was unleashed upon this and other worlds on August 2nd, 2013!

Album:

Music for me has everything to do with feeling and the mood of the moment. And apparently I wasn’t in that great a mood at the time I reviewed ’The Chronicles Pt. 1’, the debut from the German Lucid Dreaming (the project around Elvenpath guitarist Till Oberboßel), because after listening to the album again, I must honestly confess that I have done that record too short! It doesn’t happen often, but in this case I must greatly change my opinion, there that album is indeed a pleasant power metal release, and the previously mentioned mediocrity is not true. Therefore the album definitely deserved a few points more in the final score.But anyway, new album, new chances. Four years after the first part of the concept based on ‘The Chronicles Of Prydain’ novels by fantasy author Llyod Alexander, Oberboßel returns with the successor. On the second part of ‘The Chronicle’ the gentlemen more or less continues where he left off on the debut, and again delivers melodic, dreamy, epic and folky power metal. But at the same time there is a sturdier and more straightforward approach, which makes the whole thing sound less cliché and – despite the limited use of keyboards – even more epic than before. The emphasis also lies more on epic mid-tempo pieces rather than on up-tempo power metal. Don’t get me wrong though, because with songs such as ‘Man Of The Land’, ‘Judgment Day’, and ‘The Fate Of Fools’ the album does have a number of tasty up-tempo power metallers. On the other hand the folk influences, which mostly come forward in the vocal parts, are more obviously present. On that matter I must think a lot of Blind Guardian here. On the other hand the riffs, the general guitar sound and many of the vocal melodies remind of Rebellion (during the ‘The History Of The Vikings’ trilogy). Having ex-Rebellion (and current Accept) guitarist Uwe Lulis contribute to the album – who has also been responsible for the production – that of course is not that surprising.Besides the different vocalists – among which Alexis Warnabot (Hürlement), Leo Stivala (Forsaken), Jvo Jumly (ex-Emerald), Dragutin Kremenovic (Elvenpath), Marco Concoreggi (Dexter Ward) and Jutta Weinhold (Zed Yago) – ‘The Chronicles Pt. II’ has also turned out more versatile musically. There the pace is lower in general and the songs contain a lot more tempo- and mood changes, the new material is a bit more difficult to digest. Therefore the album requires multiple spins in order to fully reveal itself more. After a number of turns the pieces of the puzzle more and more fall into place, and the well thought-through compositions come better into their own. All in all ‘The Chroncles Pt. II’ is a step forward for Lucid Dreaming and a good album, and one that fans of fantasy power metal should definitely give a chance.

Line Up:

Till Oberboßel Guitars - See also: Elvenpath, ex-Abramelin, ex-Satanic Wizard, ex-Ausgebrannter Kadaver, ex-Endless Pain, ex-Kiffed Elephant, ex-Nostradamus, ex-Thunder Gods

Tracklist:

01. Introduction
02. Who Am I
03. Morva's Marshes
04. Man of the Land
05. Cantrevs of Prydain
06. Judgement Day
07. Temptation
08. The Fate of Fools
09. My Land of Pain
10. Summer's End




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Lucid Dreaming - The Chronicles Pt. III (2020)











Year : 2020
Style : Melodic Power Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 121 mb

Bio:

Lucid Dreaming is the brainchild of Elvenpath guitarist Till Oberboßel.A project created to tell a fantasy story with the voices of some of the most extraordinary singers of the (underground) Metal scene.No, not another "Metal Opera". Yes, a fascinating listening experience that has everything Metal needs.The first album is entiteld "The Chronicles Pt. I". It was unleashed upon this and other worlds on August 2nd, 2013!

Album:

The project Lucid Dreaming by the Hessian guitarist Til Oberboßel from the Elvenpath group goes with “The Chronicles Pt. III “as you can see from the title in the third round. In Part 3, too, Oberboßel created a concept disc for Lloyd Alexander's five-volume High Fantasy series of novels, "The Chronicles of Prydain". Like the second part (2017), this album includes the fourth book “Taran Wanderer”. In addition to Oberboßel, various musicians from the environment play on the disc, such as Mercury Falling guitarist Tobias Galmarini. The characters appearing in the story such as Title hero Taran are embodied by various international and very different underground singers, whose listing here would clearly go beyond the scope. Sven D’Anna (Wizard), Elisa C. Martin (Ex-Dark Moor), Tann (Ironword), or Jiri “BiBoss” Valter (Root) should be known to some metalheads! Unfortunately, not all vocalists are equally good for my ears, some of them have a great nerve factor for me.The artwork by Felipe Machado Franco is breathtakingly beautiful and follows on from the first part where this artist was also active. Musically there is of course no happy-kitschy to symphonic "metal opera", but classic heavy / power metal with many voices complementing each other well. The entire production by Accept guitarist Uwe Lulis is earthy, not bloated and almost too old-fashioned for me. It's just a matter of taste but not bad! Apart from that, Lucid Dreaming Metal offers without kitsch, but with many singers and is the opposite of various lengthy “metal operas”. The songs themselves are between short & crisp and nine minutes, with “The Mirror” at the end, a 15-minute epic introduced by violins with lots of acoustic guitars as a conclusion. Four of the nine songs level off at the six-minute mark. The playing time of almost stereotypical 66.10 minutes can only be described as opulent.

Line Up:

Till Oberboßel Guitars - See also: Elvenpath, ex-Abramelin, ex-Satanic Wizard, ex-Ausgebrannter Kadaver, ex-Endless Pain, ex-Kiffed Elephant, ex-Nostradamus, ex-Thunder Gods
Fanny Herbst - Harp
Nadaprem - Violin
Philipp Koch - Drums
Tobias Galmarini - Guitars
Oliver Rossow - Guitars

+ Guests:

Vocals (Sven D’Anna (Wizard), Elisa C. Martin (Ex-Dark Moor), Tann (Ironword), Jiri „BiBoss“ Valter (Root) etc.)

Tracklist:

01. Introduction (00:03:47)
02. Open Wide The Gate (00:09:42)
03. Born From The River (00:06:58)
04. The Free Commots (00:03:53)
05. Life Is A Forge (00:06:45)
06. From Thread To Pattern (00:05:44)
07. Dreams Come Alive (00:06:45)
08. All Or Nothing (00:06:54)
09. The Mirror (00:15:42)




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Lucid Dreaming - Upon The Barricades (2026)











Year : 2026 (El Puerto Records Edition)
Style : Melodic Power Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 165 mb

Bio:

Lucid Dreaming is the brainchild of Elvenpath guitarist Till Oberboßel.A project created to tell a fantasy story with the voices of some of the most extraordinary singers of the (underground) Metal scene.No, not another "Metal Opera". Yes, a fascinating listening experience that has everything Metal needs.The first album is entiteld "The Chronicles Pt. I". It was unleashed upon this and other worlds on August 2nd, 2013!

Album:

4 full-length album.I’m a big fan of Power Metal concept albums. Between 2014 and 2020 I gave high grades to each of the albums in Lucid Dreaming’s trilogy, THE CHRONICLES. Now a devastatingly long six years later, Till Oberbobel’s (fix) Lucid Dreaming is back with UPON THE BARRICADES.This time, Till has turned his attention from fiction to non-fiction, from Welsh mythology to German history, specifically the German Revolution of 1848 which saw an uprising of the middle-classes against the aristocracy. They wanted to establish a republic and of course the rich, ruling class was not as keen on that idea! LUCID DREAMING tackles this subject with aplomb and fury.As with his previous trilogy one of the highlights is the extraordinary number of elite Metal warriors he has gathered in his studio army to contribute to this epic piece. I won’t list the two dozen(!) of them in the body of this review, you can see who they are below in the track list section.The action-packed album cover is gorgeous courtesy of Serbian Dusan Markovic, one of my favourite Metal artists. The production quality courtesy of Uwe Lulis (Grave Digger, Rebellion) is world-class.The album starts with a bit an overture-style tune featuring vocal work by Perardi (Airborn), Van Heerden (Strident) and a couple of lesser-known guys called Blaze Bayley and Ralf Scheepers. The four of them push a lot of wind!Up next, perhaps the heaviest fastest track, ‘Black and Red and Gold’ is next, driven by the relentless double-kick drumming of Alex Holzwarth and it features a skull-frying solo as well!The story carries on with various vocalists playing various characters and the lyrics are certainly above average with lots of political talk of ‘constitutions’, ‘confederation’, and ‘parliaments’… grand nation-building topics matched by the intensity of the raging Power Metal. There are lots of sonic embellishments as well to add flavour and character; sound effects, sound effects of battle, acoustic segments, huge gang vocals (see ‘Waves Of The Danube’), and some orchestral sections as well.As I’ve said before, I really like when an artist takes a historical topic and ads a creative flair. UPON THE BARRICADES is in the same league as other excellent historical and mythological songs and albums by artists like, Manowar (Greece 12 BC), Alamanac (Russia, 1584), Iced Earth, (USA, 1863) and Ring Of Fire (Leningrad, 1941-44).UPON THE BARRICADES is superb conceptual Power Metal, start to finish. Engaging, intelligent loaded with all-star talent, well-written, produced and performed, and most of all fun, this is one of the best concept albums of the year. Long live the Forty-Eighters!

Line Up:

Till Oberboßel - Guitars - See also: Elvenpath, ex-Abramelin, ex-Satanic Wizard, ex-Ausgebrannter Kadaver, ex-Endless Pain, ex-Kiffed Elephant, ex-Nostradamus, ex-Thunder Gods
Alex Holzwarth - Drums

+ Guests:

Blaze Bayley
Ralf Scheepers
Alessio Perardi
Deon van Heerden
Zak Stevens
Harry Conklin
Giuseppe Ciapone
Piet Sielck
Daniel Heiman
Erdmann Görg
Said Khochsima
Siegfried Schüßler
Gerre
HP Piller
Rain Irving
Marius Danielsen
Krsto Balic
George Thomaidis

Tracklist:

01. Confederation
02. Black And Red And Gold
03. The Springtime Of Peoples
04. Tyrant In Disguise
05. Upon The Barricades
06. Parliament Of Spring
07. A Courageous Decision
08. Waves Of The Danube
09. Farewell
10. Puppets On Strings




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