Here come Evergrey with their follow-up to 2006’s excellent Monday Morning Apocalypse: a new album titled Torn. After having listened to the CD a couple of times, I just can’t say that it’s good and I can’t say it’s bad neither. Actually I don’t really know what to say about it.

Torn is a classic Evergrey album. It is smoother that its predecessor. It contains pretty good guitar solos (especially one in the song Numb that I like a lot). But it does not contain any groundbreaking songs, songs that will be remembered for a long time. The songs on the album have a very dark tone and sound pretty much the same according to me. Torn contains no surprises… Does it mean that Tom S. Englund and his bandmates have produced an average album? I don’t think so. Torn just misses some spicy elements that could make it a very good metal album. I think it’s not as good at Monday Morning Apocalypse. That’s pretty much what I have to say about it. I guess I’ll learn to appreciate Torn with further listenings. But at this moment, I’ll give it a rate of 7,5/10. And I’ll specify that the good songs on the album are probably Broken Wings, Fail, Numb and These Scars (pretty good).