ROSWELL SIX
?Terra Incognito - A Line In The Sand?
(ProgRock Records)

I'm not trashing Erik Norlander because I pretty much like everything he's done in his own name or with Lana Lane but his work on the first Roswell Six album sounded pretty much like any other Erik Norlander penned album. So when I received a new Roswell Six album it wasn't with
much anticipation I embraced it, until I saw that Erik Norlander no longer stood for the song writing. Instead the services of Henning Pauly had been utilised. This could be interesting. A new song writer and new artists appearing on the record. I must say that I have not read anything by author Kevin J Anderson but that doesn't stop me from liking this album. If the first Roswell Six album was more prog oriented this one got a bluesier feel to it, more classic hardrock. With vocalists like Steve Walsh (Kansas), Michael Adler (ex-Saga), Sass Jordan and Nick Storr (The Third Ending), all classic rock voices, I guess there was no other way to go musically. And what a way it is. Of the albums ten tracks there's only one I'm not too hot for. The other nine pretty much makes my hips move in classic rock poses.

-Ander Ekdahl

ROSWELL SIX
Terra Ignonito: Beyond The Horizon
(ProgRock Records)

What do you get when you have Lana Lane, Erik Norlander and James LaBrie together on one record? If you add author Kevin J Anderson to the mix you get a concept album based on the Sci-Fi fiction of Anderson? s writing and the musical compositions of Norlander. Musically perhaps not too far off what you usually get when you buy a new Lana Lane or Erik Norlander album but still different enough to warrant a purchase, and not just on the merits of the involved parties but also because the end result isn't too shady.

-Anders Ekdahl