The third album from this band from Canada.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of percussion, drums, bass, guitars, glass harp, keyboards, programming and vocals.
Numerous guests added percussion, guitars, strings, flute, flute, flugelhorn, trumpet and backing vocals.
I have reviewed their first two albums in # 1 and # 2 of this blog. I was not impressed by their 2012 debut album The Village but their 2017 album Rise was a big improvement on that album.
The music here is a mix of progressive metal, heavy prog and neo-prog.
The music is not heavy or metal enough to be simply labeled as progressive metal. It still has a lot of Dream Theater influences and enough to note these influences.
There is also some pretty substantial neo-prog, or dare I say symphonic prog, elements here. The strings, cheesy as they are, gives us some pretty strong vibes in that direction.
This fifty-five minutes long album has a nice balance between the three above mentioned genres. It is most of all a heavy prog album if I have to just decide on one genre.
The vocals is good and the music is also good. The band has on their last two albums shown that they are on a good level. It is a pity that the band does not release more albums and are more active.
Heavy prog and Dream Theater fans should check out this album.
3 points
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