Akkerman is the best guitar player to come from the Netherlands, yes better than that other guy.
I was 14 and my best friend (and guitar player in our band Fury which everyone kept calling Furry so we had to change it) knocked on my bedroom window to wake me up at 1a and told me he just discovered the other guy from the Netherlands and handed me a cassette - raising farce or something.
I listened to some of it and my first thought was souless.
I’ve seen him live with a couple friends who are fans - he’s fast and interesting but I wouldn’t spend money on him.
However, there is an large body of great Focus compositions under the Hocus Pocus hit.