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Neo Progressive Rock band from Poland "Thrilos" released debut album "Kingdom of Dream". The beginning of Thrilos was in autumn 1995. Three young musicians - Sroka, Berda and Tomaszewski created the band first named "Hands". After some months, rest of members were recruited. In the same time first composition was made -"Kingdom of dream". In summer 1996 six compositions were composed, band won local rock festival and recorded demo "Waves". Music was send to polish art rock publisher. Recording was accepted. Publisher change the name of the band for "Thrilos" which is greek word "legend". Band had to make two more songs, and after that in autumn 1997 music was recorded in Radioaktywni Studio in Czestochowa. In the meantime band played concerts in Poland. When album was recorded it was supposed to be publish in 1998, but publisher changed his mind, and it wasn't released until now.

Dreams are an essential part of the musical world. Despite having been firmly involved in Sweden's highly fertile prog rock scene in the '70s, Roine Stolt (Kaipa, The Tangent, Transatlantic) was still harbouring dreams of maximum creative fulfilment when he arrived in the '90s, guitar in hand and a head full of sublime musical ideas. The end-result was a solo album, 'The Flower King', which struck such a resounding chord with a small but growing number of prog fans around the planet. It also proved to be one of a handful of albums that helped to kick-start and underpin a worldwide resurgence for adventurous, symphonic rock music that is still gaining momentum over two decades later. You can find the proof of what happened next within this lavish, generously proportioned box set containing the first half of The Flower Kings' extraordinary catalogue of immersive, immaculate studio albums…