I absolutely didn't know this Russia act tagged by their Italian label My Kingdom Music as progressive metal. I do not like progressive music, too intellectual, too cerebral for the stupid listener I am. Strangely, this «Follow Yourself» (which is if I'm right the second full length recorded by this Moscow based act) stayed in my cd player a little bit longer that what I first expected.

I picked up some rumours of the name Nova Art before, but the first real encounter with the music of the Russian band took place at ProgPower 2006 and I guess it was tenable for most of the people of these areas. It is true, the band had released a first album ('The Art Of Nova') in 2005, but distance made it quite hard to break through in Western Europe. I remember an ultimate passionate performance of vocalist Andrew Nova and a band that, roughly speaking, put down an engrossing gig in the vein of Dream Theater and Tool.

The new Follow Yourself is not just a Progressive Metal album. Its creators, the Russian Metal band Nova Art, with their new release being under their new label My Kingdom Music, have used many elements in order to spice up their material into being challenging and complex.

Когда рецензент пишет свой опус на альбом в стиле прогрессивного металла, то его основная задача - это определить место в рецензии, куда надо впихнуть упоминание о Dream Theater.

Follow Yourself очень продуманный альбом. Только слушатель успеет заскучать от гитарной мелодии, как, — нате! — ему подсовывают хрупкую гармонию из клавишных а-ля 70-е