The world's loudest rock/fusion instrumental power trio brings us their first concept album: In DUCK, the protagonist, a duck, flees from a penguin policeman to New York, where excitement and danger await him. The Aristocrats - Guthrie Govan/guitar, Bryan Beller/bass, Marco Minnemann/drums - have created a kaleidoscopic musical universe in which they explore both typical genre pastiches and inventive new arrangements - some of them surprisingly soulful and sensitive - to bring the story to its fast-paced conclusion. And while their obvious virtuosity and inherent absurdity is as present as ever, it is now utilised in the band's most ambitious compositional and sonic production to date. The varied music accompanies the protagonist from the duck in a ... read more