Delusions is a toughie, a challenge for your ears and your mind.

There are many reasons for that – at first I want to name the extravagant female voice, for Julie Kiss does not avoid high pitches. Over and above, the musical direction plays its role turning out eminently progressive, complex and hard to see through. Everything seems to have its place and warranty in the long compositions. I can’t get aware of parts just stringed together uncharitably, but alternation is very important.
So I feel like on a rollercoaster of feelings during the opening track The Life: symphonic orotundity, ballad-like catchiness, jazzy interplays, double-bass-inserts, hefty break-outs and the varying voice of Julie – summing up to a really abundant, alternating mixture, which can be hard to digest and cumbersome from time to time.
In addition, stomping insistence and melodic refinements come into operation, the track Mirage is one example for this tactics. All these ingredients create an acoustic theatre in my mind. Keyboarder Hen is also responsible for the one or other detail and felicitous arrangement. He acts as a puppet master mostly in the background. During the named opus Mirage he takes the melody lead and sets acoustic highlights every now and then.
I get the impression that the actors in TO-MERA all play in virtuous style without performing in endless solo emissions. In contrast, they build up a hard to take and coeval enjoying sound wall.
TO-MERA show their fragile side in between and throttle the complex component for relaxed jazzy parts. Consequently, the monstrous tune The Glory Of A New Day gets a highlight of progressive art because of this approach. The semi ballad A Sorrow To Kill takes the same line – it starts calmly, speeds up a little bit and reflects different emotions like the title suggests, including crazy sound effects.

Frail emotionality, resonant heaviness and playful but not enervating musicality designate TO-MERA’s style. Your choice is right if you like complex, bombastic rhythms as well as relaxed arrangements accompanied by a slightly off-key female voice. Meshuggah dance with The Gathering and Dream Theater? Are you ready for Delusions?