Product Description

9 years after the release of the world acclaimed album DESTINY? Mystery is finally back with a new album called Beneath the Veil of Winter s Face The Album is the first full length album featuring new singer Benoit David. Benoit had joined MYSTERY not too long after Gary Savoie left the band and had participated in the recording of Hey You! Performed by Mystery on the Pink Floyd tribute album Signs of Time and the song Visions of Paradise, also performed by Mystery on the Moody Blues tribute album Higher and Higher.

Track Listing

1. As I Am
2. Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face
3. Snowhite
4. Travel to the Night
5. Scarlet Eye
6. Third Dream
7. Voyage to the Other Side
8. Sailor and the Mermaid
9. Awakening
10. Preacher's Fall

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187186 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Customer Reviews

Merci Beaucoup for a Winters Face
This CD is quite good and I have had it in my car CD player for almost a month now. I am getting to know these songs and like what I hear. All but one of the songs was written by Michel St-Pere including lyrics and he played all the guitar and keyboard parts, so I am not sure if this is a band or a solo effort. The production values are excellent and turned up really loud is the only way to listen to this CD.

Only one song stands out for me as different than anything I have heard before and that is "As I Am" the first track, the song makes an attempt to sound like YES and does emulate them very well, however most of the songs are a bit tempered to the ideas of Rush with a bit of Trevor Rabin mixed in, not a bad thing. So for a somewhat fresh take on prog rock, you will not waste your money, however much of the music you will have heard before.
I think there is enough talent here to break some new ground if they can breakout of the prog rock mold and create some new ideas. My best to Mystery, I would like to experience them doing theme's of a lighter note and perhaps head south to record next time in a sunny location.

Progressive Rock that has it all.
There are a few cuts on this album that could be prog rock classics - The Sailor and the Mermaid has all the elements I look for in prog rock...symphonic development, rock sensibilities, a drop dead, OMG hook and a great story that actually makes sense. Other standouts are the title song and Awakening. If you like progressive/art rock you should give this one a listen. Some of it will remind you of ELP or early Crimson and one or two songs will make you say ---YES.

Masterpiece album
This is quite simply one of the best albums I have bought in the last 30 years . All areas of this album are top notch from production to playing to song writing. I do not have one fault with this album. Each and every song on here is better than the next. Melodic with muscle. Highly recommended.