Angherr Shisspa

All this makes the band sound indecipherable and impenetrable. Fortunately, that’s not the case. There’s plenty to latch onto here, densely packed into the album’s 50-minute running time. In the heady, heavy prog-circles, Koenjihyakkei is already firmly established – renowned as the ultimate contemporary progressive rock outfit with three albums and a live DVD released in their native Japan and exported around the world. Koenjihyakkei explodes with glittery keyboard lines, speedy bass/drum workouts, emotive reed respites, and operatic female vocals that take the listener from sheer exuberance to absolute apocalypse…and all this is performed with superhuman technique in extremely catchy, complex arrangements.