Everytime I listen to Jorn's material I am simply amazed. He has the amazing ability to channel David Coverdale and Steven Perry at will. Having said that, he also has his own style in song-writing that has taken that 70's and 80's sound to this millenium. If you've never heard him before or his work in Masterplan, this is a great place to start. "The Gathering" is a collection of songs he's re-recorded for various reasons. All the songs have also been digitally remastered by the brilliant Tommy Hansen as well so you are getting 16 superb quality tracks. I felt like this equalled a few albums just because of the number of amazing songs. Fans of AOR, Power Metal and Prog-Metal will find material they'll love on this one. He's taken material from his 4 solo albums so you get a good variety of songs.

"Young Forever" showed up on this one, which surprised me a bit, I loved the original from 2004's "Out To Every Nation", but I'm not complaining, now I have 2 versions to enjoy. There was new versions of One Day We Will Put Out The Sun" and "Something Real" from that same album.. He also re-recorded "Worldchanger" from his 2001 release of the same name as well as numerous other tracks from that album, apparently he wasn't overly happy with the original. I was happy to hear improvements on "Abyss Of Evil" from his first album, if nothing else the recording was better.

Overall, this is a great retrospective of Jorn's material. You'll be hard pressed to find too many releases nowadays with this much quality material on it.