FEATURED CD - On The Virg : Serious Young Insects

[Duncan Glenday]

Per ProgArchives:

On the Virg is another progressive metal/jazz fusion band with quite complicated arrangements. They release so far a single album in 1999 named Serious young insects. Virgil Donaty the famous drumer is on the helm here, helped by other skillfull musicians Simon Hosford on guitar, Phil Turcio on keyboards, Evripides Evripidou on bass = the result is awesome instrumental album. The music as I said is quite complicated of course, going from prog metal chops to a more jazz fusion sophistication and complex arrangements with a good doze of harmonic parts where the guitar and keybords make the main role. The album is pretty solid, not a single piece is boring, the pieces flows from one to another pretty well, the listner remaing pleasent surprised in the end, like I was for sure. Similar with for ex Planet X, Derek Sherinian solo albums, LTE canadians Grey Matter, Cosmics etc. and with bands that incorporated besides prog metal jazz fusion elements giving a truly solid and well played prog metal fuzion. The musicianship as expected is top notch, Donati is a well known and respected musician (drumer) in this field , here is no less a brillienat performer. So, I will give 3.5 stars, great album, I realy liked what I've heared. Recommended to those who enjoy prog metal and aswell jazz fusion in same time.

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=45173

[bob_32_116]

Not to be confused with Fine Young Cannibals.

[Baribrotzer]

thet PA reveiwer is somwhat spleing chalenged.

[Scott Bails]

thet PA reveiwer is somwhat spleing chalenged.

Good God, I can't even read that.

[Duncan Glenday]

thet PA reveiwer is somwhat spleing chalenged.

[sergio]

awesome album! Still sounding fresh after all those years. Glad they did reprint of CD, as it was out of stock for a while. And its live interpretation is superb as well. With Doug Shrieve... Looking at Simon Hosford it is hard to believe that he also played in Men At Work ... who-can-it-be-now stuff... And of course, Donati is a drummer beyond real.

[Svetonio]

(...) I will give 3.5 stars, great album (...)

This is a five-stars great album.

[Shadow]

This is a five-stars great album.

That's why you don't go to a prog site for a fusion review.

[Svetonio]

That's why you don't go to a prog site for a fusion review.

Actually, at progarchives, that is "politically incorrect" to give five stars to something if it's not one of the most famous albums in the history of progressive music in general.

[Duncan Glenday]

Perhaps more significant - Gnosis gives it an impressive average score of 11.

Only one rater gave it a 9.

[bob_32_116]

Perhaps more significant - Gnosis gives it an impressive average score of 11.

Only one rater gave it a 9.

... and who are Gnosis?

I mean, I know what Gnosis is now, having had it explained to me some time ago on PE, but I mean who are these people, these cognoscenti, whose ratings of albums are more significant than the rating you or I might choose to give them?

[simon moon]

Killer album!

Virgil is a monster on this (when is he not?), and the other players are no slouches either.

Proved the Virgil can write some great music, in addition to playing the hell out of it.

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

Perhaps more significant - Gnosis gives it an impressive average score of 11.

Only one rater gave it a 9.

I like this album. I got is shortly after it came out but it's not exactly Fusion, nor is it exactly instrumental Symph... it's just a real good Prog album with Metal moments

[mellotron storm]

thet PA reveiwer is somwhat spleing chalenged.

He's from Bulgaria, he's got quite the collection of music.

[MJBrady]

This album was a godsend after first hearing it, it was like someone finally made a fusion recording that had the progressive impact that the RTF - Romantic Warrior lp had on me all those years ago. Great recording start to finish.

[magmaniac]

Love this album for its dynamic composition!

[Proghound]

This does sound awesome- any ideas where to get a copy or at least a download? Only place I could find it was iTunes Australia which would not work, but would much rather a physical copy. Big Donati fan and this one got right by me. great stuff, thanks for the post!

[ytserush]

Still need to pick this one up on CD.