American progressive metal band noted for blending classical influences with technical, melodic progressive compositions. Reviews praise the album Digital Veil, AJ Minette's songwriting, and the production.

Reviews identify AJ Minette as guitarist and piano player and credit him with strong compositional contributions. The band experienced a vocalist change before the Digital Veil album. Reviewers describe the music as a blend of classical and progressive metal, highlight strong production, and refer to the recording lineup as five Californians.

Two DeBaser reviews praise Digital Veil for its fusion of classical elements and technical progressive metal. Reviewers highlight AJ Minette's compositional role, strong production, and standout tracks like 'Antebellum'. Both reviews rate the album highly and recommend listening.

For:Fans of progressive/technical metal, listeners who like classical influences in metal, musicians interested in composition and production.

 For The Human Abstract, the change of the vocalist and the return of Minette (Guitar and piano) did not represent a fall; rather, it was like entering a dark room, illuminated with this new album.

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 This is mainly thanks to the band's axeman, AJ Minette, an exceptional guitarist with an impressive compositional taste, able to weave complex yet frighteningly melodic sound textures, climbing through ultra-memorable riffs and arpeggios that indeed recall that culture now present 'only' in the various conservatories scattered throughout our peninsula and around the world: it is impossible not to mention tracks like Antebellum, an epic seven-minute-plus progressive ride that I consider the true masterpiece of the album, powerful, epic (indeed), hyper-technical, and ultra-melodic, while the other tracks settle on the same level of beauty, power, and compositional flair, even the 'barrage' that spills into core like the title track, results in elegance in their martial progression, and do not degrade into the usual clichés of the various 'similar' band clones like Darkest Hour, Killswitch Engage, et cetera, present everywhere.

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