[Pedro Azevedo: "Ambitious this record certainly is, but it suffers from two problems. First, the lack of a consistently good atmosphere, which derives from the attempt to create a wide spectrum of moods throughout the disc. And second, the presence of a few rather pedestrian riffs and weaker passages in this hour-long composition does not help the overall listenability of the album -- which is lower than that of, say, Edge of Sanity's _Crimson_. The album is lavishly produced and performed, and clearly a vast amount of work went into planning and creating it. There is plenty of quality material here -- some of it is indeed excellent -- and it is a considerable improvement on the band's debut [CoC #52]. However, its listenability and consistency would have greatly benefited from a fair bit of trimming."]