Southern Empire – Live @ HQ – Australian Crossover Prog Rock
A Comment from Son Andrew leads Me to Southern Empire So the other day after I posted my review of Damanek, and suggested that I would be checking out United Progressive Fraternity, my son Andrew provided this comment on Facebook…. And if you like United Progessive Fraternity check out Unitopia and Southern Empire…UPF and Southern Empire were formed out of the ashes of Unitopia So after checking out UPF and liking what I was hearing I took Andrew’s advice. I went to Spotify and downloaded Unitopia’s album Covered Mirror, Vol. 1 and Southern Empire’s Live @ HQ . Of the two bands, I have listened to Southern Empire a little more,but I have enjoyed both albums. About Southern Empire Anyway, tonight I went to Prog Archives to find out more about Southern Empire. Southern Empire is an Australian crossover prog band. Keyboardist Sean Timms formed the band after the breakup of Unitopia. The band count among its influences bands like: Dream Theater, IQ, Transatlantic, Karnivool and Steven Wilson. While the band creates catchy songs with nice melodic hooks, their sound may be slightly harder and edgier than the bands that influence them. The Band Sean was the main song-writer, producer and keyboard player with Unitopia. As such, after Unitopia disbanded Sean Timms had enough song written, but no band to play and record them. He approached vocalist Danny Lopresto about forming a band to play the material and ultimately record an album w. The result was the formation of Southern Empire…
