We are kicking off with the title track that starts bombastic and could fit at once on an Evergrey release. This is song is one of the heaviest and contains all the things one can expect from musicians that have been around for so long. Next to the addition of Tom, we have also a fresh keyboard wizard in the name of Vikram Shanker who has also co-produced this album . On ‘The Emotional Depiction Of Light’ he was responsible for writing the most parts which is one of the highlights on the album. Dynamic, emotional and with Tom‘s emotional on top of it, close your eyes and imagine what music can do for you. You should also check out the remix he did for this song.

‘Remember the Dawn’  and ‘Seven Minutes From Sunset’ are more drawing cinematic landscapes on this album, while ‘I Am Resilience’ has a bit of a spoken word style like we find back in Megadeth. Is it a surprise that Chris Poland makes a guest appearance here. This is the song of the guests as we also have Henrik from Evergrey. There is also a 14 minute masterpiece with all the prog goodness inside of it. It seems that no progband can do it without an opus of +10 minutes long. It’s very well written and reminds almost of a journey through emotional music cinema. It showcases also what each band member is capable of, as if we didn’t already know that. I have to say, the guitar solo’s on this piece are very nice to hear.

My friend told me that Redemption has the tradition to do some covers of very not so metal songs. Apparently they have done in the past songs from Faith No More to Tori Amos and Toto. On this album we found a very heavy cover of Genesis‘ ‘Turn It On Again’ and a rendition of the Peter Gabriel classic ‘Red Rain’.

From the first time I heared Redemption I have to say, with all these quality musicians in it , this couldn’t go wrong. I read here and there that fans have problem with the change of the style of singing. Well , replacing Ray Alder is impossible, but Tom has also a very unique voice which fits the music surprisingly well. Give this album a chance, embrace the past, look at the future.

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