GRANDEUR

Imagine the harsh vocals and rhythmic riffing of The Ocean coupled with the ambience of Tesseract and the smooth clean vocals of 311 (yes, the dude singing "Amber is the color of your energy") and you have a pretty good idea of what Grandeur sounds like. The album is engaging and fun through the majority of its runtime. Although, given how indebted the sound here is to the band's influences, the record isn't a wholly original sounding affair. Still, this shouldn't detract from the overall good experience the average fan of modern progressive metal can expect to have while listening to this record.