The fifth album from this Canadian band.
The band is a quartet with a lineup of bass, drums, keyboards, synths, piano, guitars and vocals.
They also had help from children voices and flutes.
Mystery were now establishing themselves as a major force in the prog rock genre. Their vocalist Benoit David also joined Yes for a short period of time.
The band's mix of American symphonic prog, prog metal, pomp rock and neo-prog is highly attractive.
A lot of promises had been shown on their previous albums too and it was only a time before Mystery came up with a great album.
The band is not so much prog metal on this album. Symphonic prog and some pomp rock is more dominating this album than on previous albums.
The music is majestic, bold, pomp and melodic throughout this one hour long album. The vocals are really great and the other musicians also do a great job.
There is a lot of great details here. Ditto for melody lines. The songs are pretty long too. Long enough to give each song all the possibilities to blossom. And they do.
Mystery has indeed come up with a great album here and one I really without any reservations fully enjoy. My only gripe is the lack of a truly classic track, a killer track. But this album is the one I have been waiting for.
4 points
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