Gotterdammerung, by Asgard (1991): Most of the time I try and use this post to pimp some artist that I think (know?) most of you have never heard of. This one is a bit different. Consider it a public service, as this disc has the coveted position of Worst Album I Own. Asgard is an Italian band plowing the same fertile neo-prog field as early Marillion and IQ. Musically, there's nothing terribly offensive going on, it's just very uninspired and "been there, heard that." Had the lyrics been Italian, I would pass the disc off as merely underwhelming. However, the English lyrics, spouted by a vocalist who is obviously straining, are some of the most cliched prog lyrics I've ever heard. To wit:
and under the same sky lived togetherThat's from "New Myths," but it sounds like a tired argument about the artsy pretentiousness of prog. It's the lyrics that drag this album down from merely bad to abysmal self parody. At least there's one instrumental track.
men, giants, demigods, fairies, elves, ghosts,
speaking animals, trolls, dragons and magicians
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