Glass Hammer

With »Valkyrie«, a thoroughly enjoyable concept effort, Glass Hammer have once again shown how modern symphonic progressive rock should sound.

It would be unfair to accuse Glass Hammer of becoming just a very good but soulless American Yes clone with "If," since the album is a blend of plenty of other symphonic prog and jazz fusion influences plus thoroughly original…

Schendel and Babb are workhorses, but all that graft usually pays off big. «Ode to Echo» is no exception, and stylistically it's one of the most diverse chapters in the Glass Hammer saga so far.

Glass Hammer, eternal believers in the triumph of 'good', have made an album in »Perilous« that's interesting and varied enough that, even though they put out records almost every year, you can't accuse them of being generic.

»Cor Cordium« is a quintessential, thoroughly 'pretty' Glass Hammer album with an old-school symphonic prog rock charge, and in its pomposity it could hardly be any more 'Yes-like' (among other things, it sports a cover by Tom Kuhn that…