Ayreon - The Human Equation - 2025 Remixed & Remastered - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For more than three decades, David Eugene Edwards has carved out a singular path through American music. First with the gothic folk urgency of 16 Horsepower, then with the devotional intensity of Wovenhand, and more recently through the stripped-down landscape of his solo work. On his sophomore solo album Mercurial Silence, Edwards continues the path established on his 2023 debut Hyacinth, while pushing his sound into new territory through the expanded use of electronic production and layered textures. The record finds Edwards channeling the stark intensity that has defined much of his career while embracing a broader sonic palette that feels both ancient and modern. His unmistakable voice moves through layers of bowed strings, percussive drones, and spectral electronics, giving Mercurial Silence the feeling of a transmission from somewhere just beyond reach. Written and recorded in June 2025 at Edwards' studio in Denver alongside Vincent Petitjean, Mercurial Silence reflects a deepening of both process and collaboration. For mixing and production, Edwards again worked with Derek Coburn in Los Angeles, who engineered and mixed Hyacinth, creating continuity between the two records while allowing the newer material to move into more layered territory. Across it's 12 songs, Mercurial Silence refines the thematic direction first explored on his debut while widening it's focus to consider the recurring stories cultures have told about the heavens and the earth, and how those realms intersect, interact, and continually reshape one another.

Percussion wizard Pejman Hadadi is joined here by Imamyar Hasanov and Hamid Motebassem on kamancha and setar. Together the trio weaves a sumptuous tapestry of Persian and Azerbaijani music to relax and inspire the listener. This contemplative disc is full of innovative improvisation by masterful, musicians, but Hadadi often shines as the true star as he coaxes an astonishing array of sounds from his instruments with unerring sensitivity and fire.

CD re-issue of InchThe Eyes of PowerInch, the second album from the melodic metal band Signum Regis, originally released in 2010 via Inner Wound Recordings. This new version is remixed and remastered by Filip Kolus and features completely new artwork by Uwe Jarling (Grave Digger, Mystic Prophecy). The album features Göran Edman (ex. Yngwie Malmsteen) on vocals on all songs. Perfect for fans of melodic metal, historic concept albums, Symphony X and Yngwie Malmsteen!