After releasing a self-produced LP entitled Arrive Alive (recorded in Scotland in 1981), Pallas was courted by EMI Records (who had just signed contemporaries Marillion) and went into the recording studio with Yes/Emerson, Lake & Palmer engineer Eddy Offord to record the album that would become The Sentinel. The plan was that The Sentinel would be a recorded version of The Atlantis Suite, an epic centrepiece of the band's live performances at the time based around a futuristic version of the story of Atlantis, with plenty of references to the Cold War.
All this boded well for Pallas, but EMI's initial interest in the band waned, as did Offord's enthusiasm for producing the album properly. In order to increase the commercial potential of the group's major label debut the running order was changed, adding more commercial songs and removing much of the Atlantis Suite material. As a result of all these factors, when The Sentinel was released in 1984 it was regarded as a compromised affair by all involved (despite sporting what was regarded as one of the genre's most beautiful covers ever, illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe). The excised Atlantis Suite tracks were issued as B-sides on singles at the time of the album's release, and in 2004 a remastered version of the album was released with the Atlantis Suite finally intact and as the band intended it.
Artist: Pallas
Album: The Sentinel
Year: 1984
Label: Harvest
Style: Neo-Progressive Rock
Format: mp3/320, flac (tracks, 48kHz/24bit), flac Hi-res. (tracks, 192kHz/24bit)
Tracklist
01 Eyes In The Night (Arrive Alive) 4:12
02 Cut And Run 5:04
03 Rise And Fall 10:02
04 Shock Treatment 4:27
05 Ark Of Infinity 7:12
06 Atlantis 8:07
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Pallas – The Sentinel (1984) (UK press, Vinyl-rip) mp3+flac (48kHz)+flac Hi-res. (192kHz)
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