{"id":3593,"date":"1985-05-01T00:00:56","date_gmt":"1985-05-01T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2013-06-01T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:08:23","slug":"album-review-prophet-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-prophet-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"PROPHET – Prophet (1985) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROPHET
Prophet<\/strong><\/span>
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\nTotal Experience (1985)<\/span>
Rating: 10\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is unbelievable; a classic pomp LP if ever there was one. Beyond Sugarcreek? Well, I\u2019ll leave that up to you. How disco label Total Experience ever picked up on Prophet must be quite some story, but let\u2019s just be thankful that they did.<\/p>\n

What we have here is pomp rock of the highest degree; tight vocal harmonies coupled with excellent songs and musicianship that ranks among the best. \u2018Steel Secrets\u2019 sees Joe Zujkowski letting loose on his keyboards at the intro, as the number fires off into a mid-tempo rocker, with the kind of hookline that imprints itself on your memory. \u2018Heart Of The Night\u2019 sounds a lot like Boston, but is filled full of keyboard frills leaving you doing overtime trying to keep up with it. \u2018Slow Down\u2019 is a Kansas-type ballad which closes side one in the finest way possible.<\/p>\n

Side two opener \u2018Powerplay\u2019 sees vocalist Dean Fasano sounding like a younger version of Steve Walsh, while Joe Zujkowski does his best to challenge Greg Giuffria for the king of the ivories award. \u2018Sail Away\u2019 is the LP\u2019s real rocker; watch your VH meters serge into the red zones as this number races along. \u2018Listen To Ya\u2019 is pomp at its best; bouncing bass lines and swirling synths all over the place.<\/p>\n

Believe me, this is incredible and it\u2019s really hard to put the LP into words. My best advice is to just buy it and believe in Prophet.<\/p>\n

Kelv Hellrazer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 11 (1985)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PROPHETProphet Total Experience (1985)Rating: 10\/10 This is unbelievable; a classic pomp LP if ever there was one. Beyond Sugarcreek? Well, I\u2019ll leave that up to you. How disco label Total Experience ever picked up on Prophet must be quite some story, but let\u2019s just be thankful that they did. What we have here is pomp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-prophet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11926,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}