End of Time

"This is not an album with 15 songs on it. It is a narrative, an odyssey of thought on the ups and downs, the misery and hope of life, with its resolution residing in our death. It is very reminiscent of Moody Blues’ 1968 classic In Search of the Lost Chord album, with Graeme Edge’s poetry, and Fishman even concludes “Sulfuric Fumes of Fury” with a creaking closing door. Shades of “House of Four Doors”! Though much of the poetry is dark with references to shadows, insanity, disdain, and rotten nightmares, there is a spiritual message that, in the end, there is peace. Although not stated outright in the text (for which we are relieve...being obvious is too easy), it is the music that delivers us from all of this, and not sardonically, but with an organically arrived-at consolation.

The album’s tracks vary in presentation, but these highly creative shifts and turns unite them by the thread of the narration winding its way through each song.

The journey is rich in its rewards and satisfying in its constantly changing color and text. Often, artists who attempt to unite disparate elements into a whole end with a desultory product. But “End of Time” succeeds on all fronts in its sense of purpose and coherent vision. It is the potency and deft structuring that makes this not just an enjoyable piece of contemporary rock, but a significant one. - Dr. Patrick Finley