The sixth album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
A guest added strings.
The band returned two years later after their The Congregation album with this one hour long album.
The music is again somewhere between extreme metal, progressive metal and rock opera. Theatrical progressive metal is the label most fitting here.
Malina sees the band to a large degree getting rid of the most extreme metal aspects from their previous albums. Malina sees the band move more towards theatrical operatic progressive metal.
That means complex but also strangely some pretty melodic music. The band reminds me in this aspect a bit about both Queen and Muse.
Einar Solberg's vocals is again operatic brilliant. He is one of the best vocalists in this scene.. if not the best.
The music is good throughout and the band was cementing their position as one of the most original and best progressive metal acts in the world with this album.
3.5 points
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