This is the third effort of Green Carnation and is a rather differentiated than their usual ones. "A blessing…" is moving aside from their -until now- familiar style of doom/prog metal. This is a hybrid of progressive, hard rock and power metal in a very specific way. Some elements of doom metal atmosphere are still present, but certainly not enough to call this Cd doom metal. I guess that there are not many bands that play in this way and it's very difficult to sort them, nor because they play something extraordinary or something new, but because they play so many things together. You don't have to worry at all for the quality of this Cd. The band is consisted of very talented musicians, high skilled, which are composing really interesting songs and need no confirmation of their value. They play their music in a very sincere way and this is experienced when someone listens to tracks as "Lullaby in the winter", "Writings on the wall" and "As life blows by". Although I liked much more their previous musical direction, I have to admit that this Cd is a very mature release. I guess that there is no turning back for Green Carnation and their next steps will be to this direction.