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In 2022, 3’s Robert Berry, Saga’s Ian Crichton and Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler released their debut as Six By Six. But have the prog supergroup been able to recapture that magic on the highly anticipated follow-up, Beyond Shadowland? Prog caught up with Berry to discuss the challenges, inspirational artwork and orchestral arrangements that lie behind their “difficult” second album.

Rich Wilson

“It really was a little bit of a struggle for two or three months, just to feel like we could move forward and equal or top the first album.” Whatever you choose to call it: “difficult second album syndrome” or “sophomore slump”, it remains a threatening, hovering spectre for bands that have created cracking debut records. Whether caused by a lack of suitable songs or a psychological dread of writing inferior fresh material, it has debilitated many an artist. Seemingly, Six By Six – the power trio formed by Robert Berry, Saga’s Ian Crichton and Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler – were also unable to dodge that fear when constructing the follow-up to their universally lauded self-titled debut in 2022. “It’s something that’s hard to explain and it is a little…

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