Artist: Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution
Album: Golden Age of Music
Genre: Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 01:07:51
Total Tracks: 15
Total Size: 810 MB

Tracklist:

01. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – SR Prelude (01:32)
02. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – The Glamattack (05:15)
03. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Golden Age Of Music (05:12)
04. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – The Rise Of The Starman (04:49)
05. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Burn It Down (04:52)
06. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Odyssey (06:46)
07. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – They Took Us By Storm (05:05)
08. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Golden Boy (05:49)
09. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Holy Holy Ground (05:06)
10. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Fight Of The Century (03:55)
11. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Came To Mock, Stayed To Rock (06:07)
12. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Children Of The Revolution (Bonus Track) (03:05)
13. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Heard It On The X (Bonus Track) (02:55)
14. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Fantasy (Bonus Track) (04:09)
15. Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Love Is All (Bonus Track) (03:08)

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Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution will release their spectacular debut album Golden Age of Music.

You think you know Arjen Lucassen? Towering Dutch prog rock polymath? The man behind the super successful prog rock conceptualists Ayreon? Not to mention his prog metal of Star One and Guilt Machine? Enormous overarching concept albums about space and time, packed to the hilt with special guests that read like a who’s who of modern day progressive rock? Arjen Lucassen? Well, think again…Supersonic Revolution, the band behind ‘Golden Age Of Music’, are simply five men: Arjen on bass, long-standing keyboard player Joost van den Broek, guitarist Timo Somers, drummer Koen Herfst and singer Jaycee Cuijpers. Five men rocking out and having one hell of a time doing it.

The whole project grew from a request to provide a track for a cover album for the German music magazine Eclipsed. “They asked if I had any cover versions lying around,” he recalls. “I said, ‘No but I’ll happily record one for you.’ So, they gave me a list of bands and I saw a ZZ Top song ‘I Heard It On The X’ that I really like. I said I could record it for them, but then they told me it had to be ready in one week…”

“I was like ‘Oh my god!’. I contacted my favourite musicians in Holland via WhatsApp and literally within 30 minutes I had assembled five people. A band basically. From there the seed was sown in Lucassen’s mind. ‘I want to form a band. And I want to simply have fun!’.

“I’m a perfectionist as you know, so I’m always sending musicians their parts back and asking them to change stuff,” he acknowledges. “But this was all brilliant. We were having fun, calling and WhatsApping all the time, and within a week we had a complete product.” He continues, “Also I wanted to have an up-beat, positive project.”

“I was like, let’s form a band and let’s write songs in the style of the 70s, and have the lyrics be a celebration of all the memorable things from that time, because those were my formative years,” he enthuses. “But I didn’t want it to sound like the 70s because that’s already been done, and I can’t do it any better than ‘Stargazer’ or ‘Kashmir’.”

“The guys are all younger than me – around 30 – so they weren’t even alive yet in the 70s. So, it was a great way for me to make 70s music with lots of Hammond and blistering guitars, but to update it to this time.”

The end result is 11 tracks of high energy, progressively inclined heavy rock that swings with the kind of groove Deep Purple rocked with in the early to mid-1970s. “This album is not a typical prog album. It’s not Yes or Genesis. But it’s not a metal album either. There’s a track called ‘Burn it Down’,” Lucassen notes, “it’s totally based on ‘Smoke On The Water’ but written from the perspective of the ‘stupid with a flare gun’ mentioned in the original lyrics.

The album also features covers of some legendary songs given the Arjen Lucassen treatment as bonus tracks: T-Rex’s ‘Children of the Revolution,’ ZZ Top’s ‘Heard It On The X,’ Earth Wind and Fire’s ‘Fantasy’ and Roger Glover’s ‘Love Is All.’