GALAHAD – The Last Great Adventurer (2022)
UK melodic prog rock veterans GALAHAD returns with their brand new studio album, ”The Last Great Adventurer”, and after first listen let me tell you this is one of their best albums to date. This record has been several years in the making and most of the songs on the album actually pre-date the previous ‘Seas Of Change’ album from 2018.
Plus, due the constraints of the recent Covid emergency, the album was recorded at several locations over the last couple of years by the various band members and finally edited, mixed and mastered, as usual, by engineer / producer extraordinaire Karl Groom (Threshold / Dragonforce / Pendragon / Arena / Yes etc.).
Musically the album has a crisp contemporary sound but also still includes plenty nods to the band’s progressive heritage particularly on the closing title track which is a very personal tribute to lead singer Stu Nicholson’s father, Bob…