Antares
Entry updated 10 November 2025. Tagged: Music.
Obscure Italian prog rock band, whose sole album Sea of Tranquillity (1979) was released at the tail end of the genre's heyday. It is a loose concept album about an astronaut escaping a bad relationship on Earth and travelling to the Moon, only to hope his girlfriend will be waiting for him when he returns. This keyboard-led "symphonic prog", with sparse, heavily accented English-language vocals, aims for a Pink Floyd level of grandeur but ends up sounding merely cheap. The cover depicts an astronaut about to land on the Moon and declaring, "We come in peace for all mankind." [CWa]
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