Originally Posted by The Batlord

That's the genius of the album though. The production of the guitars, which you think would be way up front like all their other albums, is of equal importance to all of the symphonic elements so that no single instrument gets center stage. They attempted to make a metal album with production in the spirit of classical/opera. Or at least that's what I get from it. In any case it's a singular power metal album in a genre full of guitar albums with pretensions of being otherwise.