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The Power To Believe

King Crimson predicted the heavy terror of contemporary metal in "21st Century Schizoid Man," the first song on their 1969 debut, In the Court of the Crimson King. The Power to Believe, the first full-length Crimson studio album in three years, goes even further. It is the sound of apocalypse now....

2003 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Epitaph, Vols. 1-2

1997

Thrakattak

1996

Thrak

1995

Three of a Perfect Pair

1984

Beat

1982

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Despite counting among its alumni members of Bad Company; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Foreigner; and Asia; King Crimson has never had much truck with the pop end of progressive rock. Instead, the ever-changing ensemble has preferred to haunt the artiest extremes of the prog-rock movement, producing music that can be abstruse, arcane, abrasive, and abstract -- but very rarely boring. As such, it casts ...

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