Too often bands within this genre spend more time showing off their musical talent than actually writing a song but Voyager do not make this mistake and they certainly have an ear for heavy and catchy melodies that will have you humming the riff or the chorus long after you first heard it. This is certainly evident than on songs like ‘Everwaiting’ and ‘Cross The Line’, songs that are able to draw in the most avid of prog-power fans as well as more casual listeners with their catchy choruses and accessible, yet still complex, song structures.

But it’s on album closer ‘White Shadow’ where Voyager really show their talents. The song is a mixture of prog, power metal, classic rock and even a touch of black metal with fans of mind-bending compositions satisfied by the vast amount of styles crammed into a single song and those after a catchy hook kept happy by one of the best choruses this side of Manowar - this really is the album’s centrepiece and in an age of I-Pods and skipping tracks, its a clever yet bold idea by Voyager to leave it until the end.

While the comparisons to Rhapsody are perfectly valid, Voyager’s subtle additions of heavy vocals to sit nicely alongside Daniel Estrin’s soaring melodies, the tight rhythm section of Mark Boejien’s technical yet catchy drumming and the equally matched bass work of Melissa Fiocco and the excellent riffs of guitar duo Mark Devattimo and Simone Dow, bring to mind a more Threshold-style sound. And it is this interesting mixture of vocal styles and the aforementioned ear for crafting a song that make this release worthy of any rock fan’s collection and what could be just enough to propel Voyager into the premier league of prog-power bands currently populated by names like Rhapsody and Threshold.

Best Tracks – ‘Cross The Line’, ‘White Shadow’.