CHAIN.EXE

This album is unbelievable. It is a thinking man's prog metal album. The metal parts are extremely catchy and rocking and the less hard parts are pure prog bliss. If you liked Frameshift ,which is an awesome effort in its own right, this goes a step beyond that. There is a lot less of the mellow stuff that was on Frameshift. We all can only hope that Henning Pauly keeps this type of effort up and gets the type of acclaim that he deserves. There is almost 80 minutes of music on this disk and IMO there isn't a note of filler. Excellent production and the vocals from Matt Cash and the guests are all very well done. Maybe not of LaBrie caliber, but you won't care because the whole package is top shelf. And if you think that the album is just the Cities suite and some other songs tacked on - not the case. The rest of the album holds up just as well as the monumental Cities epic. I give it a 5 and put it near the top of my all time favorites. Don't take my word for it, go to henningpauly.com and see what other people have been saying.