Suspyre's "A Great Divide" follows their debut album "The Silvery Image", which was highly acclaimed by the press and the fans two years ago. Although the band members had in their initial plans to release an EP, they changed their opinion and extended their already composed material to cover a full length release. "A Great Divide" is a very good progressive/symphonic power metal delivery. It is especially addressed to the fans of Symphony X, but the friends of Angra and Dream Theater can also find some interest. The album is very diverse in its structure. Because of the narration of a story (unfortunately I don't have any lyrics in front of me, so I assume from the titles and the repetition of themes that has a concept nature) forces the band to adopt a structure with short passages and lengthy parts, with impressive vocal lines (a big credit to Clay Barton) and skillful instrumental sections, and with direct and aggressive riffage and sensitive melodic moments. It is a very impressive work at times, but it's also very tiring at other. This is the main drawback of the album. The quality of compositions is fairly imbalanced, thus the interest of the listener increases and decreases occasionally. However the strong moments of the album are really strong. This means that the band has a potential to show. The use of instruments like saxophone enhances the atmosphere of the album, while also works well for the variety of the overall sound. The production is very great and highlights some of the virtues of the band, such as the excellent performance on the guitars. To summarize this is an interesting release for the friends of symphonic power metal and it comes in a time that the genre needs so qualitative releases. If they work on their compositions more they will definitely impress us in the future.