If you love the Progressive Metal of Dream Theater, Queensryche and Vanden Plas, you are in for a treat as this latest from Evergrey is a joy to listen to.  

What we have here is total class, plenty of heavy guitars, loads of keyboard runs and more time changes than you could wish for, couple this with the absolute perfection of the musicianship, and great vocals and you have one hell of a CD.  For proof of this just check out "A Touch OF Blessing", "Ambassador", The Essence Of Conviction" and "More Than Ever".  They do have their lighter moments and these are just as good as the heavier songs and make this a very balanced album.  The initial pressings of this come in a hardback book with 3 live tracks and show the band can do this live as well.  

DOWNLOAD            "A Touch Of Blessing from the label site above   TOTAL

PLAYING TIME = 58 mins + 13 TRACKS