Shadow Gallery's third album is a concept album about a defense worker's search for meaning after becoming disenchanted with his job. The music is somewhat softer than it was on
Carved in Stone, but has much the same sound and the same intricate production. Guest vocalists
James LaBrie of
Dream Theater and DC Cooper of
Royal Hunt add their talents to this album. As with other
Shadow Gallery albums, this album features a good mix of fast and slow and long and short songs. Everything on the album is well written, performed and produced. The featured tracks of the album would seem to be the two longest, "I Believe" and "New World Order" which feature LaBrie and Cooper, respectively. However,
Tyranny is an album that flows so well that it's difficult to think of songs individually. ~ David White