Its been awhile since I last heard some material from one of NJ's finest keyboardists! Sean never seems to stray too far away from this atmospheric progressive metal style of music. On this album unlike Sean's works in his former band Money For The Toll the composition and arrangements are more prominent andjust beautiful sounding. Midnight Express is like listening to an orchestra in the heat of the moment.
Its amazing material, vocals or no vocals each song has its possessive powers and movements within its elite instrumentation's. Definitely check this album out if you like powerful music. There really are no words to describe how awesome this album is.
Rating: 10/10

Out of New Jersey comes multi-instrumentalist R. SEAN FAUST. He is playing Progressive Rock with influences from DREAM THEATER, RUSH and YES. It sounds really American, with more clean melodies and a bigger sound than for example the European/UK acts that play this kind of style. Opener “Midnight express” is a very impressive instrumental bombastic Progressive Rocksong. Next track “Higher source” features vocals, and is a nice slowtempo Progressive Rocker like a polished DREAM THEATER. Then follows a bit less interesting part with lots of acoustic guitar, but “Circles” picks up again a good melodic Progressive Rocksound, although this is an instrumental track. Although I was not really impressed by the vocals, on the song “Tomorrow” we can hear some really good vocals, and secondly this is one of the album’s strongest songs, a powerful bombastic Progrock ballad that even has some KANSAS and SAVATAGE influences. The CD closes with “The untitled art”, a Classical Music influenced instrumental. Concluded, this is really nicely done and even highly recommended to Progrockfans! More info at: http://www.soundclick.com/rseanfaust and e-mail him at: innsoul@aol.com or keyboardmasseur@yahoo.com
(Points: 8.0 out of 10)

Money For The Toll, is one of the latest addition to the AFB website. They seem to be very motivated, dedicated, and hardworking which we love to see here at AFB! I found out about this band through Sean Faust (keyboards) for he's also, the keyboardist to one of our Model bands, Into Darkness. I love it when you come across musicians that are in more than one project.
Money For The Toll, is a metal band and they're very awesome!

Fields Of Red
This song has a nice soft intro that kicks into an awesome metal song. These guys have a unique style for they're one of the only metal bands that don't remind me of some other metal band! They have a very distinct sound, which is good. I think this is one of my favorite songs by this band, though Islands was the first song I heard by them.
The guitars are nice to listen to, the vocals rule, the bass keeps everything in perspective and the drums thump along in perfect harmony. This is one of those songs you have to listen to 10 times straight, because it's just
awesome.

Islands
Mmmmmmm - I love the intro to this song!
Always welcoming the listener into a song is
attractive! Grabs your attention right away and makes you want to listen to the rest of it. You have to love and admire the progressive attitude this band puts out with their drum and guitar
works. Absolutely amazing. It's always interesting hearing keyboards within a metal
band. Gives it a whole new perspective and adds that missing element. So many metal bands have this void within their music, and I think what these guys do with their keyboards fills that hollow emptiness.

Balance
This is a nice softer sounding song, it has more
keyboards with repetitive guitar, drum patterns which is very effective against the vocals. Now, I just feel like singing!
Some songs are very inspirational, I think this song is quite inspiring in some ways.
You have to listen to this song, it's highly
impressive!

Closure
I like how Money for the Toll's songs don't all sound a like. I find with some metal style bands it's hard to distinguish between the songs, but I don't seem to have that problem with this band. Every song has it's own unique style and sound. This song is more of a mixture between soft and heavy, it has the soft keyboards and loud guitars, the vocals range inbetween the two which is really nifty.

Mountains
This song reminds me of an anthem. It has that unique quality about it. Bohemian Raphsody by
Queen is similar to this song. It takes on that same piano/guitar combo that gives it some spectacular appeal that makes you feel like you're more than what you should be.

Fantasy
With all the chimes sounding this is a cool song! It's also the second longest song on the CD, 6:43 *whew* most of Money For The Toll's songs are rather lengthy which is good in some cases. It allows the listen to get a better feel for each song, and of course all of their songs are enjoyable to listen to so the length doesn't really matter!
This particular song had a nice long intro before
breaking into the vocals. It was more rock sounding then metal like a few of their other
songs. It adds a nice edge to the album, and
provides us with more of a perspective into the
accomplishments this band can do.

Absence
A nice heavy intro backed by delicious guitar
tracks combined with keyboards. Its a pleasant song to listen to, with all its different sounds and elements. It ranges from soft to heavy and back to soft again, I find it unique how the music can sound soothing yet the vocals can be harsh. It gives the song more bite when things clash in harmony! This is the longest song on the album, and holds all the key elements to being a great song.

Fields of Red (Radio Edit)
The edited version of the opening song to this album.
Radio edit songs are always amusing to me, sometimes they're funny other times they're just annoying and stupid. I think this radio edit version defies the laws of radio edited songs. The first radio edit song I recalled hearing when I was a kid was "What's My Name" by Snoop and being around 16 or so I didn't realize that the song on the album wasn't the exact same version as the song on the CD, so when I bought the CD I was completely shocked at all the horrible language. I hid the CD from my parents
for a good 3 years before finally I gave up hope and just blared it on my stereo one day to see what they would do, to my surprise they thought it was funny.
Now, when I turn on the mainstream radio station and hear a 'radio edit' song, they way they bleep out the 'bad words' becomes rather annoying because at my age you already know what the word is so you sit there listening to the
song going: "what's the point? The bleeps ruin
everything!" but what can you do? Nothing much really.
After all of that, I think this radio edit version was cool because you can't really tell where it's been 'edited', it just blends so well with the rest of the song.

A Time For Christmas
It's almost summer, I don't really want to think about winter again!
But, if you ever get the chance to hear this Christmas song I'm sure you'll either find it disturbing or amusing [maybe both]. Sean puts a nice little twist and mockery into all the little things that make up the commercial holiday.