I realize that Stolt was going for a little folkier prog sound on this originally, so I've tried (really) to slow it down and enjoy this.īut the lyrics ain't that great, and their awkwardness actually ruins a couple of the songs ('Bomb Inside Her Heart' - really?!). And as much as I really dug Sylvan's vocals on the Unifaun album, he sounds old, tired and downright gravelly on this one. Part of the problem lies in the first half of the album where they parked 3 of the least interesting, blandest songs (tracks 2, 3 & 5 - 'The Unwanted Brother', 'Afternoon Skies' and 'Jesus on the Barricades').

The vocalist for the fantastic Unifaun debut (Nad Sylvan) teaming up with the multi-talented Roine Stolt of the Flower Kings? Plus some TFK guys joining in on a couple of songs, as well as Crimson's Pat Mastelotto? This cd just HAS to friggin' cook, right?ĭespite some moments of greatness here and there, this cd overall just never did anything for me. Reminds me somewhat of Genesis' Trick of the Tail artwork. Sylvan and Stolt finished some additional projects following the album release and are taking this project on the road in the autumn of 2009 - in most cases doing a double bill with another Flower Kings side-projct Karmakanic (see live album 'Karmakanic & The Agents of Mercy - The Power of Two' (2010)).īoy, this cd held so much promise! It's filled with beautiful artwork inside and out even the fancy calligraphy of the liner notes

With the participation of several musical friends debut album 'The Fading Ghosts of Twilight' was issued in March 2009. However, one thing lead to another, and pretty soon the two of them found themselves involved in a creation that almost took on a life of it's own - for some reason or other the compositions got longer and longer, more and more progressive rock elements found their way into their creations - pretty soon this had evolved into a collaborative project, and the music had changed from low key and acoustic to anything but low key and highly progressive. Formed in 2009 - Situation unknown as of 2017ĪGENTS OF MERCY was originally a side-project by Roine STOLT (guitars, bass, vocals) of The Flower Kings fame, whrere the goal was to create a low key, mostly acoustic based type of music.Īlong the way Nad SYLVAN (vocals) from Unifaun was invited to participate with vocals.

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