Lex Rex (album)

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Lex Rex
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1, 2002 [1]
Genre Progressive rock, symphonic rock
Length66:46
Label Arion, Sound Resources [1]
Producer Steve Babb, Fred Schendel
Glass Hammer chronology
The Middle-Earth Album
(2001)
Lex Rex
(2002)
Shadowlands
(2004)

Lex Rex is the sixth studio album by American progressive rock band Glass Hammer, released on September 1, 2002.

Contents

It is the first album of the band to be released with the same line-up as its predecessor. [1] [2] This line-up, consisting of Fred Schendel, Steve Babb, Susie Bogdanowicz and Walter Moore, would last until their tenth studio album, 2007's Culture of Ascent . [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Fred Schendel and Steve Babb.

No.TitleLength
1."Good Evening"0:51
2."Tales of the Great Wars"10:42
3."One King"6:07
4."Further Up and Further In"15:13
5."Intermission"1:08
6."Music for Four Hands (and Temporal Anomaly)"2:19
7."A Cup of Trembling"7:50
8."Centurion"7:47
9."When We Were Young"9:53
10."Goodnight"1:11
11."Heroes and Dragons"3:45
Total length:66:46

Personnel

Glass Hammer

Additional musicians

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Lex Rex". Glass Hammer's official website. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  2. "The Middle-Earth Album". Glass Hammer's official website. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  3. "official page for the album". Glass Hammer website. Retrieved 5 August 2014.