Monday Morning Apocalypse - Evergrey

Evergrey's 2006 release is largely a disappointment, lacking the epic scale and lyrical intrigue of their earlier works in favour of a more accessible and tightly edited direction that ultimately fails to impress, topped off with a meagre production job that kills the impact of the guitars and makes this more of a rock album than heavy metal, especially disappointing considering how Evergrey were previously one of the heavier bands playing in this style. The chorus of the opening title song is particularly offensive in its obvious theft of seventies pop-rock, and most songs end up sounding very generic, with only the contrived weird vocal stylings of 'Still in ...  Read the complete review