Sinkadus Aurum Nostrum

Killer Swedish progressive rock with loads of wonderful instrumentation and bushels of mellotron. Sinkadus in many ways actually remind us of Anglagard at times with uniquely shaped song structures and outbursts of deep melodies. This is rich music with some grand song writing and nice deep harmonic structures throughout. Sinkadus are highly talented musicians who deliver some great emotion in thier music. Vocals are rather sparse, but are well done (sung in Swedish) and explore some great vocal harmonies.

Sinkadus played LA's Progfest with Malcolm Parker at Cyclops (their European label) releasing the recording of the event as Live at Progfest '97 the following year, packaged with the original version of the album as a bonus disc, rather clumsily entitled Aurum Nostrum, Version 1. The trouble with putting out a live recording this early in a band's career (see: Spock's Beard) is their lack of material, usually resulting in a run-through of their sole album with a new track or two thrown in. Well, that's exactly what you get here, although at least they changed the album's track order around. The album has a great sound, very 'in your face', with the standard Progfest vintage keyboards to the fore…