Beyond the Mirror is a progressive metal band, formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA in 1994. Their influences include Queensryche, Van Halen, Dream Theater, Alice in Chains, Rush, Kiss, Kansas, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Carl Palmer and Phil Collins.

The singer is a combination between Bruce Dickinson, James LaBrie and Geoff Tate. Besides the very good vocals, there's also some intricate heavy guitars influenced by Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. In fact the whole group contains very talented musicians. Although their music is very heavy with many mood and tempo changes, the songs are very melodic with catchy choruses.

The best tracks are "Take Me Higher", "Familiar Stranger", "Lie", "I'll Never Forget", the instrumental "The Warrior" and "I'm The One".

This is a CD that I strongly recommend if you like melodic progressive metal.