Roar of the Earth by Kow Otani.
It’s a concept album about a man who must defeat mighty giants to appease an evil god, who in turn will resurrect the women he loves, but at what price? His only companion in the land of the giants is a horse which swiftly carries him across an empty landscape on his dark quest.
Otani captures the loneliness of the hero’s plight perfectly in tracks To the Ancient Land and Silence; The magnitude of the task ahead of him in Grotesque Figure and A Violent Encounter; and even the small glimmers of hope that remain in The Opened Way and Revived Power.
This is an album that will take you on an epic journey and then leave you crying in your bed at night when you realise just how pathetic and dull your own life is. But remember this, when you are softly sobbing to yourself: “Am I completely insignificant? Am I destined to achieve nothing of importance? Will everyone I love die? Is there nothing I can do about it?”
The answer to all those questions is YES!
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