While Mercenary carries the layered, multi-textured vocals from Mikkel Sandager forward on _11 Dreams_, they've evolved the less-than-captivating riffs from 2002's _Everblack_ into decent guitar work on this effort. Still falling short of spectacular, songs like "reDestructDead" offer a distinct glimmer of hope. The remaining ten cuts of the disc are purely hit and miss however.

Brother to vocalist Mikkel, Morten Sandager's keyboards present on the album are a worthwhile addition, as they are used appropriately in a complementary nature supporting the larger efforts of Mercenary's two guitarists, Jakob Molbjerg and Martin Buus. "Supremacy v2.0" is a good example.

On the whole, _11 Dreams_ should have been released without the addition of the highly discombobulated track eight, "Music Non Stop". It is as out of place as NARC at a NORML rally. While "Times Without Changes" is painfully slow and comes off like a piece from White Lion's _Mane Attraction_, the song behaves as a conduit to the energetically stimulated sound found on "Loneliness".

The disc comprises the debut on Century Media for this six-piece Danish outfit. The bottom line to this effort lies in a more mature approach to incorporating the vocals into a captivating song structure that could turn these eleven dreams into a fantasy instead of simply a nocturnal episode.