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"My favorite release of 2007. While many prog metal bands like Dream Theater starting to sound a bit stagnant and uninspired, BtBaM went the whole hog in the opposite direction. Exceptional dynamics, musicianship and song writing, while never skimping on emotion, make for an album so musically perfect to me, that I wouldn't change a thing about it. The only weak point is the production. The drums are too high in the mix and the guitars are slightly muddy, but fortunately this is not a huge problem."
"I was not able to appreciate the harsher elements of this type of music back when the album came out ... it is interesting how (musical) taste can change over the years. I really like the album now, and the remix/remaster in 2020 really improved things, all the little details come out much clearer now.
IMO this is a masterpiece. Even though some BtBaM albums that followed were even (a tiny bit better), this release firmly established the band as the leading Extreme Prog Metal artist. Extreme, melodic, sophisticated, weird ... perfection."
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