Kirk Windstein - Dream in Motion
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24th January 2020 felt to be the “Metal Heroes do solo album” day of the year. Shortly after I had a look at Nightwish’s Marko Hietala’s solo debut in English language, one of my next albums to have a listen to was Dream In Motion by Kirk Windstein, who is famous as a member of Crowbar. After I had mixed emtions for Hietala’s CD, I hoped that Windstein will do better.
Kirk Windstein – About The Artist
Born on a US Air Force base in Middlesex in the UK in 1965, Kirk Windstein is well known as a founding member of the sludge metal band Crowbar. His musical career strarted in a cover band called Victorian Blitz, though, before he changed to the hardcore punk band Shell Shock. This band collapsed and some members formed a new band called Aftershock, which renamed to Crowbar in 1991. Windstein is the pnly founding band member, who played in the band from its roots until today. Windstein also joined and found other projects. The most well-known of those is likely the supergroup Down, who split up in 2013, but announced to be rejoining in 2020.
Kirk Windstein – Dream In Motion – Track by Track
The album contains ten songs at a total playing time of 43 minutes.

1. Dream in Motion
Powerful, intense – the title track at the beginning of Dream in Motion is definitely promising. Quite slow, but still hard and a nice mixture of guitars and Kirk Windstein’s vocals.
2. Hollow Dying Man
Hollow Dying Man is a very similar track in its arrangements. I love listening to Windstein’s voice and his very intense vocals. I expected more hard tunes on the album, but I like what I hear again.
3. Once Again
That voice! Also in Once Again, Windstein just blows your mouth with that organ. There feels to be even more echo in the arrangement to me, which gives it a very spiritual touch.
4. Enemy in Disguise
So far, the album sticks with the way the songs are recorded. It feels a bit like “Never change a winning team” and the songs are all very good so far. Still, I would like to have a variation soon.
5. The World You Know
At least The World You Know does not give you too much addition to the songs before. The sound feels even deeper, wider to me in here.
6. Toxic
Toxic has a bit more metal and guitar elements. Still, it is a slow song, but with harder rhythm and instrumental play. Headbanging allowed… I a speed at which your doctor is still fine with it. One of my favorite tracks of the album.
7. The Healing
The song starts very quiet and just with sparse instrumentation, but the guitars take over again and again. Intense!
8. Necropholis
Okay, I give in. ThatÄs the Kirk Windstein sound for Dream In Motion. He chose that style, that concept, now he is doing it for ten songs. Don’t expect a crowbar guitar festival any more.
9. The Ugly Truth
the Ugly Truth feels to be one of the most melodic tracks of the album, even though the melody and arrangement just deviates slightly from the songs before. Nice one.
10. Aqualung
With about 7:20 minutes, this is (by far) the longest track of the album. It is very versatile, having very slow and thoughtful moments, but also the fastest and most rhythmic moments of the album. I would have loved to have more of these different elements before – but at least it is a nice farewell from Dream In Motion.
Kirk Windstein – Dream In Motion – Spotify
Here is the Spotify chance to listen into Dream In Motion:
Kirk Windstein – Dream In Motion – My View
In case you follow my blog, you likely know that I love versatile albums. I love to listen to one or many stories, but I like slow ones and fast ones, hard and romantic ones on one album. None of the ten songs on Dream In Motion is a bad one. Kirk Windstein surprises me with the soft music and voice – and he is absolutely doing great (even) in these tunes. But finally, there is something missing. Something, which especially Aqualung gives a hint that it could be possible. Still a nice album.
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I happened to run into the front lady of the Seven Spires, Adrienne Cowan, when Tobias Sammet chose her as ...
Sepuiltura are true Heavy Metal legends - with Quadra, the Brazilians already released their 15th studio album, 24 years after their ...
What does a musician give himself best as a birthday present? Richie Kotzen went for a new album on 3rd ...
Athens, Greece, 20th May 2006 - a day that did not only change my life, but the life of a ...
The majority of the music community likely knows Marko Hietala as the bassist of Nightwish. In 2019, he released his debut ...
Due to my contacts to the Greek metal scene, which really seems to have a lot of musical talents, I ...
Due to my contact to a Greek metal music promotion agency, I ran into another Greek metal album. The band ...
Project Renegade are the first Greek act I am reviewing on Flyctory.com. The metal quartet present their debut album Order Of ...
There is not just Vivaldi and Pavarotti - Italy also has quite a strong Metal scene. One of the key ...
If you record songs like Death to All But Metal or Bukkake Tears and you do it good, you may make it big ...
I saw the Black Star Rides some years ago as a support act of Def Leppard and Whitesnake on their ...
Tarja Turunen - the Finnish Opera and metal voice became a legend with Nightwish. After the split from her band ...
Sometimes, Flyctory.com is covering quite a range of topics within one day: while I started the day with the review ...
Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
Doro Pesch is back - before she will tour in late 2018/early 2019, she just released a double album: while ...
Postings about Concerts
All postings about concerts I visited:
After I had quite a lot of sports reporting at the beginning of 2025, January of that month did not ...
The most famous Cologne band in the most important (and famous) venue of the city - how could there be ...
After I missed two early December 2024 country music concerts in Cologne due to trips to Switzerland and the United ...
On a road trip through Italy in 2021, I ran into a song, which made me fall in love with ...
On 20th November 2024, I was able to report from an artist I had on my "bucket list" for quite ...
Club Volta again - just three days after I featured the Stephen Wilson Jr. concert there, I was back at ...
Time for some country music concert coverage again: On 4th November 2024, I headed to Club Volta in Cologne. Sound ...
Just the evening after the Visions of Atlantis show in Essen, I headed to the E-Werk in Cologne. On 29th ...
Finally, I made it - after featuring so many concerts of different genres, I headed to Essen in the German ...
I absolutely loved the intimate, personal, but also very professional atmosphere of the Jessica Lynn show at the Muxx.tv grounds ...
After a one day break, the Sound of Nashville Open Air2024 was back in Cologne. Sunday, 25th August 2024, featured ...
Not only due to the high effort of Sound of Nashville, there seems to be quite a bit of development ...
After featuring the Giovanni Zarrella concert the week before, another very special show was on my list on 12th August ...
After I had quite an intense series of concerts in May 2024, there has been quite a break in my ...
I follow Andreas Dorau and his music since the mid-1990's. The more I was happy to be able to cover ...
I so far featured the German pop artist Sasha only once, with his children album Toto und der Mann im Mond ...
Right after I returned from a weekend trip to Norway, my home town Cologne hosted another really interesting country music ...
End of April and beginning of May 2024 featured a couple of very interesting country music gigs in Germany. For ...
End of April and beginning of May 2024 came with quite some photographic dates for me. Right after the Carrie ...
After I recently chatted with Carrie Welling about her tour through Germany and the Netherlands, I was happy to be ...
What an honor - Darius Rucker kicked off his Starting Fires Tour World Tour in my home tome Cologne. The Live Music ...
Right the day after the Sound of Nashville show in Cologne on 5th March 2024, I headed to Frankfurt. Again, ...
Especially as I could not make it to one of the Country To Country shows the weekend before, I was ...
There are not too many artists, which make me travel on a day trip to London. Jenn Bostic did so ...
Especially after I reviewed the amazing album Das ist keine Übung in October 2023, I was really looking forward to see Alex ...
His show in Aschaffenburg 2019, the main stage appearance at the C2C Berlin 2020 and now Cologne 2023: Eric Paslay ...
Afrer his very interesting album release Going Solo, I was really curious about how Gergor McEwan would be alike live on ...
Just about a month after I saw Randall King at the Cologne Club Volta, I was back there again on ...
Finally, he is in Germany! I was so excited to see Jim Kimo West at the Nacht der Gitarren ("Night of the ...
After I had the opportunity to see Kelvin Jones at the Heart To Heart show in Dusseldorf and the preparing ...
Busy times: just three days after I saw Home Free in Hamburg and eight days after the Randall King show ...
Home Free - the a capella country band has built a fan base all over the world nowadays. I was ...
It's been quite a while since I covered the last Sound of Nashville show. On 15th September 2023, the Semmel Concerts country ...
One evening with six different artists? The opening night of the Heart To Heart concert series definitely came with high ...
The Monheimer Sommer is a small series of open air concerts, driven by the city in the Rheinland region. Apart from ...
Closing day in Pfulllendorf - after Saturday came with a long line-up and a lot of acts, the musical side ...
After the great musical warm-up on the first day of the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf, Saturday was something ...
My first full festival coverage with Flyctory.com - I was really nervous while sitting on the train to Stuttgart and ...
I am not a Harley rider and I will travel to Pfullendorf by rental car. But I am really looking ...
This weekend will be a tough one, a very emotional one for me. After 52 shows with the British production ...
After there was some confusion about my coverage of the German debut of the Rock of Ages musical in Munich, I was ...
Back to the Kantine in Cologne: just less than a month after I saw Kip Moore in their major and ...
On 23rd May 2023, the Sound of Nashville concert series had a very special even in Cologne's Helios37. Despite being ...
Sound of Nashville time again. Right after I returned from a brief trip through the Nordics, Semmel Concerts and their ...
In 2018, four Bristol guys recorded an old New Zealand shanty, which was about 150 years old at that time ...
I have to give in: the red carpet is not my favorite location. Nonetheless, I felt very thankful that after ...
I had seen the musical Rock of Ages 73 times before this show - but show #74 made me kind of extra-nervous ...
After a lot of tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins, the first weekend home after quite a ...
Ten shows within three weeks - I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band ...
Heading to Hamburg for a day just in the middle of Weird Al Yankovic tour-chasing for country music? February and ...
That day in Tilburg, Netherlands, was some sort of highlight of my Flyctory.com history so far. Almost five years after ...
February and early March 2023 held a couple of concerts and shows for me. Thus, right after returning from the ...
27th January 2023, the first Flyctory.com concert coverage of the new year. I will feature a couple of really cool ...
Quite a lot of interesting music on Flyctory.com in November: after the Alexander Ludwig and Nik Wallner show in Cologne, ...
I love country music - but I always feel very gifted when I am able to present you some other ...
Right after coming back from New York City, I headed to the Helios37 in Cologne the same evening. Sound of ...
During the second week of October 2022, I have been tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic on five stages of his The ...
What a lovely combination of two amazing female country artists: on 12th September 2022, Sound of Nashville presented Carly Pearce ...
23rd August 2022 has been a very special day to me. Always great to be able to cover a Lindsay ...
Legendary Gipsy Kings and one of Germany's biggest potential drivers of country music, More Than Words - I felt really ...
Home town Cologne instead of Nashville: after my trip to CMA Fest in Nashville had to be cancelled due to ...
Somehow, a sad moment. The last show of Weird Al Yankovic on this trip. Day 5 would take me from ...
Day 3 of my Weird Al Yankovic trip in April 2022 likely had the most relaxed schedule of all. No ...
I did do the Opry Backstage Tour before, but ninth day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022 also ...
During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
During the Covid-19 crisis, I visited quite a couple of drive-in movies, which became a very popular kind of entertainment ...
Not just in regards of the third day of my time in California, but also for the whole trip following ...
The last four big acts of the C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - the three days have been ...
My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
Sunday, 8th March 2020, the third day in Berlin. Already that typical mixture of feelings: looking forward to the last ...
After a good start on Main Stage on Day 1 with Luke Combs, Jimmie Allen and Darius Rucker headlined the ...
After the the first side stage acts on Day 1 of the C2C Country To Country 2020 in Berlin, Day ...
Saturday in Berlin is over. A lot of good music has been played on several stages - but some stories ...
Time for the big party - after the side stage artists of Day 1 have cheered up the audience, it ...
C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - time to start the second edition of the festival on 6th March ...
The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
A lot has happened since the Country 2 Country 2020 headliners for all five venues have been published in October 2019 ...
Going to Hassocks, a village North of Brighton, was a very special moment to me on Saturday, 8th February 2020 ...
Five days after I saw Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins at the Carlswerk Victoria show in Cologne, Germany, I traveled ...
Right after the show of Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins in the large venue of the Paradiso, the Dutch Sound ...
The first Sound of Nashville show of the year - it felt really good to be back close to the ...
Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
After I visited a couple of Sound of Nashville shows in Cologne and surroundings, I felt lucky to do my ...
One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
I have to admit that I had been very nervous before that concert. The LANXESS arena, Germany's largest multiplex arena ...
An eventful debut of the first German Country Music Week presented by Sound of Nashville ended in Cologne with the ...
While the Sound of Nashville October started big with the the concert of Old Dominion. One day after the big ...
I had a quite unfortunate timing with the debut of the German Country Music week. I missed some shows due ...
During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
As I really enjoyed to listen to Andy Clark's new album I Love Joyce Morris, I was really hoping to manage ...
Right after I returned from a vacation trip to Tenerife, I headed from Frankfurt Airport to Das Bett (literally: The Bed), a Frankfurt ...
Rock of Ages is my favorite musical. At the time of writing, I saw it 30 times, in four countries ...
Just one week after I had seen Lauren Jenkins together with Jilian Jacqueline and Gary Quinn at the YUCA in ...
The final day of the British Country Music Festival differed significantly from the two days before: the program started slightly ...
After Sarah Darling's amazing performance on Day 1, Saturday evening had a massive Ballroom line-up, featuring Twinnie, The Adelaides, Honey ...
Friday, the 13th - not the most luck-calling date for the first day of the debut of this new country ...
Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
The Sound of Nashville series of concerts more and more established in the German country music scene. While I visited one ...
September 2019 is a country music concert months full of highlights. Just one day after I returned from my Aschaffenburg ...
Eric Paslay and his song Friday Night was one of the first songs, which really made me get in touch with ...
As part of my Weird Al and Grass Court Tennis 2019 trip, I already visited two concerts of Weird Al ...
After taking the first steps into country music and country music concerts in the early Flyctory.com days, the website is ...
The second half of 2019 features a massive lineup of country music stars in Germany. As you can see in ...
String Attached - the 2019 tour of Weird Al Yankovic is backed up by (local) symphonic orchestras. I traveled into Gilford, ...
During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
Just two days after I touched German soil back from CMA Fest 2019, I flew to London for another country ...
Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
Getting more and more into country music, I more and more love songwriters rounds. Several singers or songwriters are on ...
While country music feels to have a first boom in Germany, the Netherlands are slightly ahead and have a quite ...
On Friday, 10th May 2019, the Arts Club in Liverpool hosted the 2019 stage of the CMT Next Women of ...
The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
After my 2018 debut at the London Country 2 Country and the first-time German event in Berlin the weekend before, ...
How to spent the time best between Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin and Amsterdam and the "main events" in ...
I visited Europe's biggest country music festival, Country 2 Country (C2C), for the first time in 2018 in London. I immediately ...
The first time I saw Danielle Hope on stage was in the female lead character Sherrie in my favorite musical ...
I love musicals in general - but two ones massively influenced my life. The first one was We will rock ...
As part of her "Talk of this Town" tour, Catherine McGrath presented her equivalently named album. I visited the tour ...
The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...
Day 4, back to Atlanta, heading to where the trip started... and to my final concert of this trip. The ...
Saturday, 14th April, has not been regarded as the most thrilling day of this trip anyway. Travelling from the very ...
So long awaited... Time for the first concert of my trip to the Weird Al Tour 2018! Tried to start ...
As you might have seen in the other blog entries, I have been attending Europe's major country music festival, the ...
Country 2 Country, short: C2C, has established to be the largest country music festival in Europe. In fact, it is ...