Title: IQ – Scrape Across The Sky – Live At The Boerderij Zoetermeer Holland
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock
Production/Label: Giant Electric Pea
Duration: 04:58:03 (1:53:34+19:10+11:43+14:00+2:12:14+7:22)
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: H.264
Audio codec: PCM, AC3
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 7142 kbps / 1080i / 25 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio #1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio #2: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
Audio #3: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 21.68 GB
Filmed in December 2014 at The Boerderij in Holland, the concert was part of the Road Of Bones tour and features all the tracks from the first Road of Bones CD, along with ‘Ten Million Demons’ as the encore and a host of other live IQ favorites. With audio in stereo and 5. 1 surround sound, the special features include: the encores’ from the Borederij gig. ‘Until The End’ – video from the 2014 Lorelei festival. ‘The Projections’ – just the projections used in the gig accompanied by the live audio. The Art of The Road of Bones – Peter Nicholls in conversation with Tony Lythgoe, graphic artist and designer of the striking album cover and logo for IQ’s recent album The Road of Bones. Photo GalleryIQ: Scrape Across the Sky (Blu-ray)
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Title: IQ – Live Like This (A Show Of Resistance Ever Live)
Release Date: 2020
Genre: Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock
Production/Label: Self-released
Duration: 03:12:01 + 00:10:00
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM
Video 1: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 9982 kbps / 720p / 59.940 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Video 2: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 17352 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1 (Photo Gallery)
Audio: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Size: 21.05 GB
A Show Of Resistance and The Wake were recorded live at the Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany on January 24th, 2020. Ever Live was recorded live at the Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany on February 10th, 2018.
Tour – Ever 25 & Resistance.
IQ – Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Mastered At Masterdisk
Label: Mercury/422 836 429-1-Squawk Records/422 836 429-1 | Release: 1989 | Genre: Neo-Progressive
This is probably the most pop and accessible of the IQ albums; with Paul Menel on lead vocals, it definitely sounds like the previous “Nomzamo”. So, the IQ fan who expects complex and elaborated progressive songs could be a bit disappointed. So, you have to be prepared to hear something more pop here, although the progressive dimension is still quite present.
The songs are actually accessible and very catchy: the compositions are fresh, cute and never dark. Menel’s voice is OUTSTANDING!!! The record is well balanced: some songs are really pop, well made and very catchy (“Drive On”, “Sold On You”, “Through My Fingers”), while other ones are more progressive (“Nostalgia”, “Wurensh”). The mix of modern varied keyboards and sought-after clean & slight distortion guitars a la MARILLION, combined to a wonderful elaborated fretless bass is very pleasant. Even if the drums are less elaborated here, they still do a great job. All the songs are very well made! No fillers!
Review by greenback, progarchives.com (more…)
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