Nathan Frost,Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann: Synecron new progressive metal album

Derek Sherinian, Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann, Marco Sfogli and Taka Minamino on new progressive metal record "synecron"

Virtuosos Derek Sherinian, Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann, Marco Sfogli and Taka Minamino perform on Nathan Frost's progressive metal album, which incorporates influences spanning jazz fusion, classical/symphonic, techno/industrial, funk and new age.

Virgil Donati and Marco Minnemann each perform two versions of the same seven minutes of music, providing a unique opportunity to compare how these two celebrated drummers interpret the same composition in each of their inimitable, jaw-dropping styles.

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Nathan Frost,Marco Sfogli: synecron

  1. Empire Rising, 2000 A.D. (feat. Marco Minnemann, Taka Minamino, Derek Sherinian & Marco Sfogli) 8:09
  2. Singularity (feat. Virgil Donati, Marco Sfogli & Taka Minamino) 9:33
  3. Empire Falling (feat. Marco Minnemann & Taka Minamino)10:24
  4. Samsaara 8:56
  5. Consilience (feat. Marco Minnemann & Taka Minamino) 6:43
  6. Empire Rising, 505 A.D. (feat. Virgil Donati, Taka Minamino, Derek Sherinian & Marco Sfogli) 8:16
Album Notes
For over thirteen years, Nathan Frost honed the distinctively ultra-progressive, genre-fusing, stream-of-consciousness metal that became "synecron" in between developing high-profile videogames. When he was finally afforded the time to record, he contacted Derek Sherinian (ex-Dream Theater, PlanetX, Yngwie Malmsteen) -- mostly since he lived nearby in LA, and Nathan thought it would be a fun excuse to email one of his personal musical heroes. When Derek heard the material, he offered to produce and engineer Nathan's keyboards.

Nathan already had a clear vision for the music, and didn't feel the need for an outside producer, but it didn't take long for Derek to demonstrate that his Beachwood Manor Studios indeed had "the killer everything" (his words), and that he effortlessly grasped Nathan's aesthetic and how to push the already-progressive compositions to a new level of complexity.

After putting the music through the Derek filter (including inspired arrangements involving his custom Hammond B3 organ setup, modern and vintage hardware synthesizers, and other keyboard wizardry), Sherinian introduced Nathan to another of his musical heroes -- drummer Virgil Donati (PlanetX, Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth) -- and some of the best performers in progressive metal today: drummer Marco Minnemann (Tony Macalpine, Kreator, Paul Gilbert), and guitarists Marco Sfogli (James LaBrie, Jordan Rudess, Alex Argento, Creation's End) and Taka Minamino (Derek Sherinian).







Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann, Marco Sfogli, Taka Minamino, Derek Sherinian, Nathan Frost:synecron