Songs Of The Wildlands (2021)

"Clive Nolan is a very well respected multi-instrumentalist from England, who is involved in quite a few projects (the prog rock bands PENDRAGON and ARENA being just two of them). A musical prodigy from an early age, he has created a breathtakingly vast portfolio of work, including rock operas, poetry and story collections and hes even co created a theatre company. So, no stranger to a big undertaking, Nolan decided to create an album based on the myth of Beowulf; an old English tale of a Norse warrior's quest to defeat the evil Grendel. But just to make this all a little more challenging, he choose to use four rock musicians, a narrator, four classically trained singers and a 200 person choir made up of people from all over the world. A mammoth task made even harder by a pandemic but he got there, as you get the feeling he always does. The album itself consists of 15 tracks, a mixture of sounds, sometimes folky, sometimes symphonic." (Metal-temple)