This is an ESSENTIAL release, not just because it is a superb space-rock album - This special edition limited double Digi-Book version includes a bonus CD that will attract Hawkwind followers as well as Ayreon fans! For the first time outside of Hawkwind in ages, their main man Dave Brock is featured, leading the group in a nine-minute medley of Hawkwind tracks! ‘Space Metal’ features a large guest list and it’s a concept work featuring 10 tracks that are based on science fiction space movies. Together with it’s bonus CD, this album is essentially space-rock (in its most literal sense) -meets-progressive-meets-metal, from Arjen Lucassen, the guy behind the progressive metal band Ayreon, and it’s a quite superior example the genre. There is a distinct touch of 80’s Deep Purple allied to some tremendous axe-work and a hint of classic space-rock in these songs and instrumentals. The music conveys a sense of some vast galactic attack, as guitars race and rhythms rage, while synths and keyboards fill the sound with thick symphonic layers as the vocalists really go for it. Overall, this is a huge-sounding, multi-riffing monster of an album with quality, class, dynamics and power all in there in equal measures. The bonus disc 2 opens with the nine-minute medley of Hawkwind classics – A track delivered to perfection and covering ‘Master Of The Universe’, ‘Silver Machine’, ‘Psychedelic Warlords’, ‘Brainstorm’, ‘Assault And Battery’, ‘The War I Survived’ & ‘Spirit Of The Age’, a fantastic track that’s worth the price of the double disc on its own. 5 more tracks follow that, including a cover of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ and a Dolby Pro-Logic mix of the nine-minute ‘Starchild’ from the main album.

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Weight: 250.00 g