Review: Motorpsycho 'The All Is One'

[@chriscleveland3123]

After hearing this album for about 10 times, I'm officially calling it a "Masterpiece"!!

[@domielakrabi3276]

Thanks for the review, Pete! I didn't know Motorpsycho, an interesting band. Just purchased The Tower and since then I listen to it almost every day! Great progressive rock/metal!

[@salparadise1995]

My album of the year!! Great stuff. Thanks for the review Pete! They deserve some publicity.

[@TheProgCorner]

What a band!!! We love Motorpsycho!!!

[@PaoloNarc]

I saw them live twice and both times were memorable. The first time was during the Timothy's Monster tour, I never head their music before, I only knew they were supposed to be very good. The show started with what I believe was their single, A Shrug and a Fistful, some sort of indie rocker, after that, they went into hyperdrive and the show became a hypnotic maelstrom of heavy guitar and bass, where one song merged into the next, sort of like listening to their song The Wheel for an hour, only heavier. One of my favorite concert ever. The second time was an open air concert in Torino, that night the city was hit by a record setting lightning storm. It didn't rain but every few seconds there was a flash of lightning, best lightshow ever, although a little scary with all that electric equipment on stage. Motorpsycho are a really talented band that, throughout their career, touched all kinds of rock music. From the heavy grungy/stoner beginnings with Lobotomizer and the awesome Demon Box, to country rock with The Tussler, jazz rock with their collaboration with Jaga Jazzist Horns, indie rock with Timothy's Monster to the blend of hard rock, 60's psychedelia and prog, of the majority of their offerings of the last two decades, you can hear influences from this or that band in their music, but you can always tell when you are listening to Motorpsycho.

[@aslandama]

They are awesome live Pete, they improvise live like no other band!

[@keithshapland903]

I have this and it is another excellent album from them. Along with the superb new Wobbler and Terje Rypdal album (I have the vinyl) Norway is certainly in the spotlight.

[@drummusicinc4027]

Sounds to be right up my alley... ordered. Thanks Pete🎶👍🔥

[@Fastnbulbous1969]

I saw from your SOT review of The Tower that it was the first album you heard -- great place to start, a contender for their alltime best, along with The Death Defying Unicorn and the most recent Kingdom of Oblivion. Would love to see you do a rundown of your faves from the catalog, but understandably that's a pretty massive task of over 50 hours of music!

[@gwts1171]

"The Crucible" was really good. I haven't heard this one yet, but I will as soon as my copy arrives! Thanks for the review, Pete-dude!

[@mikeomo3235]

Wonderful album

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Sounds like my cup of tea. Thanks Pete. I’ll check it out.

[@chriscleveland3123]

"The Tower" was incredible!!!

[@stuartraybould6433]

Great album, great band.

[@gorancabrajic3240]

With The tower and The Crucible Motorpsycho entered their prog renaissance and continued it on the new album The all is one, the band delivers powerful prog sounds with brilliant guitar, bass and beautiful keyboards mostly mellotron. The album kicks off with a self titled track that bursts with power and fantastic mellotron parts. N.O.X.', a 42-minute epic shows that this band is at the top of their game. The all is one has it all from hard and heavy to beautifully written acoustic and classical parts. Third and final chapter in the "Gullvåg" trilogy is a must have If you like mix of eclectic, symphonyc, heavy, space and psych with really interesting lyrics focusing on moral, political and other issues we face today.

[@bshannon67]

My favorite Motorpsycho albums are first and foremost the amazing The Death Defying Unicorn. Its an incredible 2 CD release. This is followed very closely by Heavy Metal Fruit, Here Be Monsters, Behind the Sun and Still Life with Eggplant. So yeah, I'm mostly enamored with their stuff of the last 10 or so years. Their very early stuff - basically all their 90s output - is meh. Their last couple - especially The Tower and The Crucible are also both quite stellar. All told an awesome band...since the 21st century anyhow...

[@garyjoyce2160]

👍 great review- great 👍 shirt. Thanks PETE- 👍💯

[@johnappleton8133]

The Death Defying Unicorn will be very hard for this band to top but ill take another 16 albums of coming close. This band deserves to be huge worldwide but we all know why they won't. That's ok because they have an extremely loyal fanbase.

[@metalslather]

Pete I have never even heard of this band before this review. (by the way you pull these out of your hat from time to time). These guys rock it up pretty f-in good. I dig em' a lot. Thanx man!

[@TractorCountdown]

Motorpsycho's home label is Stickman Records (home for Elder as well). There's a documentary on Motorpsycho called "Into The Maelstrom" (2019) on Vimeo which tells their whole story.

[@mikep9377]

Wasn’t familiar with these guys. Just started listening to this album and I gotta say I really dig it! Update: listened to The Tower and The Crucible as well and these guys have moved high up on my play list. Love this music! Thanks for the review Pete - a great new find for me.

[@dougmcauliffe2253]

This album kicks ass. Right now my top 5 from the year goes to 5: Panther - Pain of Salvation 4: The All is One -Motorpsycho 3: Virus - Haken 2: Islands - The Flower Kings 1: Dwellers of the Deep - Wobbler

[@chuckkaras8169]

Love this CD!!!

[@diannecarpenter7718]

Thank you for your Review: MotorPsycho ‘All Is One’.🎼🎤🎸🎵🥁

[@maxaston2998]

Dianne Carpenter's comments on every single Sea of Tranquility video are identical and a waste of time.

[@diannecarpenter7718]

@@maxaston2998My comments aren’t always identical . You haven’t watch all of Pete’s videos to know that. You don’t have to read my comments and waste your time. I won’t waste my time with your false statements. Take Care🎼🎤🎸🎵🥁

[@metalslather]

@@maxaston2998 C'mon man she's just havin' a good time. We're all here for the music. Quit being a buzzkill. Now go on kid get off my lawn

[@jesusarielgonzalez7775]

Great review and agree with the great music coming from scandinavia. Waiting for your review on new Gazpacho

[@ericagifford3688]

Have Never hear of them, and I LOVE Scandanavian Metal/Prog ~~ THANK YOU ~~ PETE

[@christopherbull2512]

pete i got this on my headphones im loving it .... i will be buying this very soon. love your content on here keep up the good work

[@robcopen1713]

PETE YOUR SHIRT RULES🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@diannecarpenter7718]

I love your Doors creative art t-shirt!! 🎼🎤🎸🎵🥁

[@johnmagnusholm8250]

People should check out The Motorpsycho albums from the 90s as well! Great stuff!

[@Johann64]

Saw them live yesterday:)

[@balthazarspencer704]

An innovative band, i don't hear a Yes influence, mostly a bit of Camel from the seventies and some loops near of Pink Floyd psychedelic era.

[@unchattytwit]

Light Fantastic - a compilation of outtakes I believe - is also superb. Only on vinyl or download (please release a CD edition, box set!). Gotta be one of the most exciting , interesting, 'complete' bands in the world at the moment. Last 4 albums (I haven't listened to all the discography - it's deep - yet). Quality-wise, for me, Motorpsycho for me are very close to Rush, Genesis and Yes status. A breath of fresh air in these rotten times. I hope they don't decide to change their style now but even improve on what they already have. A remarkable band. Good point about the Nox split Pete - hard to fathom really considering they've got space on one CD - probably a ton of excellent outtakes as well.

[@billnole2188]

I agree. I have had several Motorpsycho albums but I like this one best.

[@mattjeffs3237]

Love this album. Great review as always Pete. Sounds like The Allman Brothers have been listening to lots of Yes albums at times! 🤣

[@erikberg5363]

Hey Pete, great review as always, thanks! Are you familiar with Landberk? They are a great and quite unique Swedish prog rock band from the 90s. Reine Fisk was their guitarist and I really enjoy his playing on those albums. Cheers

[@Intermentor]

Cool. A band from my hometown:)

[@elfensteen5222]

Hi Pete.., thanks for a great review from a great band from Norway Motorpsycho... maby also time for a ranking of their studio albums and also love the new Enslaved album 'Utgard' please do a Enslaved Ranking aswell..., Thanks !

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

To be honest, Motorpsycho have a ton of albums, and I only have the most recent three, so I don't think you are gonna get a ranking video from me on them. Enslaved however is in the queue.

[@elfensteen5222]

By the way Pete..! have you seen the "Documentary 2019 ' Into the Maelstrom Motorpsycho" ? just recommend it to watch :-)

[@OMW66]

Great review. There’s a lot of great progbands in Norway. Check out Glutton.

[@yannisch4741]

Liked it even more than the crucible!

[@darlatidwell6255]

Who? I will check 🎧 them out. Great shirts as always. 🤟✌️

[@asmallwhitedog0479]

I found a 4 cd set of Timothy's Monster and fell hard for the early stuff. Have not heard any of the newer releases.

[@Realbillball]

Sæther pronounces 'setter'. The Y in Ryan like in 'mystery'. Enough of this lecture - Motorspsycho always delivers. You should have seen the norwegian music scene in the 70's. A few honerable exceptions, but mostly home grown singers performing foreign hits in norwegian, cover bands and accordion players. And we had only one TV channel and one radio channel....routing for the accordion players most of the time. Boring beyond imagination. Maybe that's why things are happening in such a great scale these days? Our badass talents suddenly floted to the surface? Makes sense. Thank yo as always for a fine presentation. Stay safe.

[@Realbillball]

@@12dreams Both, really. The first, if I had to pick one. Like in 'synth'.

[@bshannon67]

Yes, Norway was/is loaded with absolutely classic bands. Personal favorites (besides the great Motorpsycho) include, but aren't limited to Wobbler , Elephant9, Aunt Mary, Tusmørke, Smell of Incense, Tangle Edge, Annot Rhul (have to be in the right mood), Arabs in Aspic, Gargamel, good ol' Fruitcake, Jordsjø, Titanic, Lucifer Was and Seid... And though I currently don't own any I do like some Magic Pie, Høst, Ruphus and The Opium Cartel...

[@Realbillball]

@@bshannon67 Now, there's a nice playlist. Some of them even I never heard of.

[@bshannon67]

@@Realbillball well after Covid come on over and we'll rock some quality Norwegian goodness! 😁

[@Realbillball]

@@bshannon67 I'll bring aquavit and brown cheese ;)

[@jgwatson6651]

Ranking the album Freak kitchen and Voyager respective bands ?

[@keithmarus8554]

Hey Pete! You gonna review Reb Beach’s new album A View from the Inside? The last track is called Sea of Tranquility. Cool if that was a homage to you. .

[@colintaylor8578]

Hi Pete. Great stuff as always. Any chance of a review of the new Uriah Heep boxset celebrating 50 years?

[@richbillionair]

I don’t think he is a fan of boxsets since specially he already has all the Uriah Heep studio and most live collection although Uriah Heep may be an exception due to them been one of his favorites bands

[@colintaylor8578]

Thanks for the heads up mate. I also am a huge Uriah Heep fan, but got to say I was disappointed with the boxset. Two LP's on I cd and in some cases two separate covers joined together!! Pretty poor for a 50 year set.

[@captainbeyond7469]

Hey what happened to the favorite guitar solos episodes? Any more on the horizon? Maybe Tommy Bolin?

[@richbillionair]

Whenever Pete mentions psychedelia, I always check it out and start smoking weed.

[@dlwseattle]

666 views- nice!