The return of a great but rather unjustified progressive rock/metal band with the 6th studio album “Digital Ghosts” is a fact. 

The death of their charismatic vocalist Mike Baker in 2008 struck like lightning the ranks of the group and the progressive community. But it is such a quality band and the faith in its ability not only didn’t put its members down but instead they returned strongly with the best record of the band for the 00's.

I remember like yesterday when I first heard in 1992 their first self-titled CD staying stunned by the quality, inspiration and the composing ability of Shadow Gallery. The 90's period was clearly the most inspired for the band with colossal records like "Carved In Stone" & "Tyranny", which does not imply that the "Legacy" & "Room V" was mediocre. On the contrary, but the balance falls to the first three progressive diamonds.

Shadow Gallery are still regarded a neglected progressive band that does not stand equally among the giants of the music. And when we say progressive we do not mean mere technical perfection, intricate compositions and emotion, passion, atmosphere. Ultimately complete configurations rather than demonstrating competence. This group has always combined all these qualities to the fullest extent. 

"Digital Ghosts" continues to feature dialogue between wonderful guitar riffs and progressive 70's keyboards, diversity (and choir) vocals that only Shadow Gallery can achieve in such a harmonious way. The absence of the expressive and unique voice of Mike Baker is evident but the new singer of the band, Brian Ashland is an excellent choice. Worth mentioning is the participation of Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear) in "Strong" and Clay Barton (Suspyre) in "Venom". The subject of loss is dominant lyrically and audio like in the new creation of the group. Furthermore, this has been curved on its skin. Once again we find lengthy compositions (9-minute & 6-minute) having, however, consistent and in no case tiring but manage to offer a unique range of emotions. Reference to individual tracks that make up the new project has no meaning as each one introduces the listener to a different musical path, combining progressive rock & metal having as components quality and emotion, elements really difficult to obtain from new releases that flush us. Despite the project not being a concept album it is impressive with the totality that it conveys.

In short, "Digital Ghosts" dynamically restores Shadow Gallery in modern music events renewed, inspired, sounding anything but like "ghosts of the past ".

A highly stimulating injection into the body of progressive rock / metal which slowly fades away by a "living legend" of the kind.