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Modern prog without Neal Morse wouldn’t be the same. I found out about him quite early through his strong relation with Mike Portnoy, who had opened up the door to the prog world for me. I was probably around 16 when I got my first Spock’s Beard album – ‘The Light’. Oh wow… I really
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The significant amount of extra time for making music the pandemic gave me, wasn’t only just the key to an intense writing phase for my third album. It was especially a chance to improve my musical skills and push those boundaries. Those days, I was listening to Neal Morse and NMB a lot and I
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Arctic Plant is my biggest hobby. Over the years it has become very time consuming with every step further I took it. In my everyday life, I’m an engineer, so my days are busy already. So even though after ‘The Black Riders’, there was extra motivation and there were ideas to build Arctic Plant even
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Looking back, 2019 was the year when I firmed up ‘my own style’ as Arctic Plant and moved into a very serious direction with it, mostly driven by the new orchestral sounds. It was clear to me that my second album was going to be a concept album just like its predecessor – so I
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Where do I even start? The first instrument I learned to play – and still the one I do best at – is the drums. By the time I’m writing this article, I’m 33 years old and I started to take drum lessons 27 years ago. Crazy. During childhood, my dad’s record collection (Pink Floyd,
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I was absolutely stoked when I finally got to release my first album at the end of 2017. I didn’t make it a big deal in terms of publicity, though. The only official thing I did was to put it up on bandcamp (a great platform for independent artists from all over the world –
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When I started to write my first prog songs around 2010, I filed them under ‘Treasury of Merits’. To me, unlike the rather simple music I wrote before, these new prog songs had to have a special project name to them that underlined my musical aspiration. But this first project name didn’t really feel like
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With an open mind and musical abilities on all necessary instruments as well as some own experience in songwriting, I decided to start writing on a prog album during my first term at university. By the time, we were recording an album with my punk rock band (guitar) and demos with my hard rock band
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It was in my summer holiday of 2009 – I was still in school – when I found myself composing my first prog song. Dream Theater had just released their album ‘Black Clouds and Silver Linings’ which I absorbed those days. It had the last part of Mike Portnoy’s twelve-step suite on it that impressed
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I was born in 1992. After only a few years from there, I had a complete drum set made from anything I could get from the kitchen that looked like drums or cymbals. I also tried the piano at our house. My mother is a studied professional musician, so I was surrounded by and profoundly
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