Armenia

MDP, Puppet Theatre, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Hetq Online 2005

Overhook Music have a review of Armenian rock band MDP’s Live CD that I thought worth linking to from this site. It illustrates the fact that while many continue to focus on the dreary pop music scene in Armenia, we actually have some real talent hidden underground worthy of support.

Well, it’s about time to get the first live album review to our pages. MDP is an Armenian band and they play some progressive metal, which is quite reminiscent to more known bands such as Dream Theater and Symphony X.

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I think that this band could gain lots of fans from the Western world, if people only knew about their existence and the music that they play. I sure would like to get my hands on their studio albums, but unfortunately they seem to be impossible to found. Maybe some bigger label could find MDP and bring them to the knowledge of prog fans around the world. I hope so.

Anyway, MDP have a web site at http://www.mdp.am, and there are some photos taken at a recent concert in Yerevan here, as well as an interview with the band’s keyboard player and vocalist here.

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