THE TYLER DURDEN PROJECT

This album is the first release by Mirage in over a decade. It is with a renewed line up featuring only Stephen Forner of the original Mirage. Fear not, this is still Mirage. Lounge fitting vocals are plentiful as are guitar solos and lengthy tracks. However, there is a strong metal sound throughout this album, distorted guitar and aggressive drumming. It isn't the heaviest of metal but still a sound I would consider metal. His is a welcome change as it brings new life to Mirage. Unfortunately, the music on The Tyler Durden Project is just not very impressive. Inspired by the novel Fight Club, this album at times comes off as a musical, replete with cheesy melodies and dialogue like lyrics. Additionally the music still meanders and keyboards play basically no role.

In short this album has a gimmick (a concept album of sorts) and new sound yet fails to improve upon any of Mirages shortcomings. (The songs go on and on, noodling, bland melodies and poor instrumentation)