The main person behind this project is a guy named Tom de Wit. He's responsible for the songwriting along with guitars, keys and vocals. He's joined by a number of other musicians for this set. There are two CDs here, each around forty minutes in length. The first and last songs of the set are epic numbers. Overall, this could almost land under progressive rock. It clearly has a lot of prog built into it. Yet there are some definite metal (at times extreme) things at the heart of the bulk of this set. Whatever you call it, though, this is quite adventurous and diverse. It's dynamic and powerful stuff. In addition to the CDs, there is a DVD here of an acoustic show. The sound on that is somewhat distant and the video seems like a very good, but not professional, job. Don't get me wrong, it's good. It's just not what one might expect for a live DVD. Still, this is a bonus here, and the main album is the selling point - and sell it it does.

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This opening number is an epic that weighs in at over 22 and a half minutes of music. Piano and other keys are the main elements as this starts and works forward. There are symphonic leanings at play. The vocals at the start are whispered. After a time the metal guitar screams into being and the cut marches forward with a metallic intensity and power. When the main vocals join it becomes more of an epic power metal cut. The shifts and changes bring some decidedly progressive rock like things to bear. It gets into some screaming hot territory at times. Around the five minute mark it drops way down to a mellower section that gets a little odd. Some more whispered vocals come over the top as it continues from there. After a while it rises up again and we're taken through some seriously interesting changes as it powers onward. This cut could qualify as progressive rock or heavy metal, really. It has plenty of both elements. I love the symphonic textures on this. The varying voices in the vocal arrangement make for an intriguing sound, too. This really is epic in terms of more than just the length of the piece. It covers so much ground and has so much power built into it. This gets very heavy at times. It's also incredibly intense. It drops back to a piano styled arrangement around the fifteen minute mark and begins to grow back upward with some symphonic stylings as more pure progressive rock vocals deliver the lyrics. It crunches back up from that point to continue, but the prog rock leanings are still in place here. There are definitely more progressive rock things as this makes its way along the road. It continues to change and evolve as it works its way forward. There is some scorching guitar soloing later in the number. This is just such a scorcher, really.

A cool bass element opens this. They fire out from there to some seriously epic styled metal. This is clearly part prog and part metal. It's fast paced and on fire. There are some clearly progressive rock like parts later in the track. It gets into some mellower and more purely melodic texture further down the road.