This is a classic example of how a rock opera is created. A high number of skilled musicians are used, and they are presenting a storyline told over multiple songs. From the very beginning of this opera, our ears will be bombarded with a constant solid stream of spacey keyboard-oriented melodies, and it will not stop before the last sentence of the story has been placed. Once the opera has opened the curtains with the opening title ‘A Matter of Energy’, the one of two instrumental songs included in the track list, Douglas gives us an explosion of delicate and tasteful keyboard sounds in symbiosis with delightful guitar riffs and tight drumming. My favourite songs include the already mentioned opening song and the title song ‘The Mystic Technocracy’ with its use of robotic sounding tones and groovy guitar riffs. Other songs to be highlighted is the melodic and groovy “Darwin’s Tears”, and the song ‘Judeo Christian Cosmogony’ with its use of beautiful spacey keyboard melodies blended into the mix of odd rhythms and the heavy guitar riffs added to the top layers of the music landscape. The following song ‘The Divine Comedy’ uses mesmerising and haunting melodies with a clean AOR vocal perfectly delivered to your ears. The final two on my list is the second instrumental song ‘Prophecy’ that has amazing soaring melodies delivered by Douglas magical hands on his keyboard, which fits perfectly with the drumming and guitar work. ‘Black Swans’ is the song closing the curtains of this opera. It’s a slow rock song with outstanding keyboard melodies and with the best vocal performance delivered throughout the entire setlist.