Folks who like their progressive rock with some heavy metal in the mix will dig this album. The vocals are mostly female, but there are some male ones, too. The music is a nearly perfect marriage of metallic sounds with progressive rock. All in all, I’d lump this one under prog, but I could see people thinking of it as metal, too. Whatever you call it, though, it’s very strong.

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Acoustic modes bring this in and there are classical elements added to the mix as it builds. Female vocals carry the melody with a rather old world air as some classical instrumentation works overhead. A metallic guitar rises up after the minute and a half mark, yet violin continues to play in the foreground and whispers are added. About a minute later it powers out to some very metallic music. Then they turn in some more classically tinged stuff. A serious anthemic metal jam comes after that, though. As this continues, they bring a lot more metal to the table but there are still prog elements all over it, from the instrumentation to the musical progressions. A little before the eight minute mark a false ending gives way to a very classically oriented piano section. Then it rises up with pure progressive rock laden with classical instrumentation from there. As it works out from there we get some fusion added to the mix. When it turns more straightforward the guitar soloing calls to mind David Gilmour. More metallic sounds return when the next vocals are heard. They drop it to a melodic movement with piano dominating, then some more melodic guitar soloing is heard. A metallic yet melodic movement ends the piece.