Band:	Mind's Eye
Album:	A Gentleman's Hurricane
Style:	Progressive metal
Website:	http://www.danielflores.net/minds_eye_website/indexstart.html
Release date:	September 14, 2007
A review by:	Baz Anderson

01. Praying For Confession
02. Seven Days
03. AssassiNation
04. Chaos Unleashed
05. Hell's Invitation
06. Feed My Revolver
07. Ashes To Ashes (In Land Lullaby)
08. The Hour Of Need
09. Red Winter Sirens
10. Skin Crawl
11. Graveyard Hands
12. Say Goodnight
13. Pandora's Musical Box

The one word to describe Swedish progressive metal trio Mind's Eye is ambitious as they return with fifth full length album "A Gentleman's Hurricane". This is being released as an apparent world's first triple pack consisting of the music CD, a DVD "making of" and also a comic book to illustrate the concept story behind the album.

The album begins with somewhat of a mood setting track leading into the first full song on the album "Seven Days", and this along with next track "AssassiNation" make up two of the best and most representative tracks of the album. This is heavy progressive metal with good melodies, good guitars and good drums - this is a very accomplished sounding band that really know how to put a song onto a CD the right way. Helped along by the impressively talented voice of Andreas Novak, each track on the album has its own catchy melody. This is a common trend of the album, consistency is the way to do it, the tracks towards the tail end of the album have as much melody and oomph about them as the ones in the first half of the album. After familiarising yourself with the album you will almost certainly find yourself humming along with the songs they are so infectious.

Similarities can be drawn with a few bands, more so Dream Theater than any other band though. The whole feel of the music, the maturity about it, the heaviness and diversity to some extent are all similar. Andreas' singing makes tracks such as "AssassiNation" sound almost Masterplan like also. It has to be said that to vocals on the album are one of the top qualities to the whole package of Mind's Eye with his very convincing and confident wails and harps.

This album does not venture beyond the realms of heavy metal or progressive metal, but by the nature of progressive music itself this album is somewhat diverse, and constantly interesting which at seventy-five minutes is a hard task to do. The aforementioned first two songs, "Feed My Revolver" which also now has a promo video and the powerful "Red Winter Sirens" with its intense guitar and keyboard opening are all highlights of this high quality album. If you want to listen to it as a more casual listen you will still find yourself enjoying this but of course this does have a story and comic to it for the people that want more than a casual listen from their albums.

Seventy-five minutes is a long duration for an album, and although it is stimulating and interesting for most of its duration it might also seem like a bit of an uphill task when you start the first track playing. After listening to this many times, you may feel yourself not being drawn towards it nearly as much as when you first got it, and I would put that down to its length - so although we have a consistent, good album, an album this long is always going to suffer in some way.

The future looks bright for the Mind's Eye, if you appreciate progressive and heavy metal with good strong melodies I am sure you will check this album out, it will be worth your time.