A Dream If Ever There Was One

This is one demanding progressive metal album, that's for sure.

This project from Poland is 63 minutes of sci-fi themed prog metal, with all kinds of different styles of metal music incorporated to give it a kind of unpredictability with it's progressions. You've got plenty of technical guitar trickery like on the opening instrumental track "Continuum". You've got several Djent flavored rhythm sections on a myriad of songs here, and the vocals combined with the heaviness is reminiscent of early BTBAM.

For the musician and metal fan who loves hearing the more technical side of things, this album will scratch plenty of itches. As far as the whole listening experience goes, the flow was a bit choppy here and there. At times it felt like more of an excuse to flex some music theory muscles and show off skills, rather than to make a cohesive listening experience. I found the space and sci-fi themes got lost in translation amidst all the techy playing and whatnot. Even still, there were plenty of times during my listening where I was grooving along and going "wow". So it is definitely worth a listen, and please show these artists some support.