I agree. Complete recovery from their disasterously bad Recreation Day. The Inner Circle is full of all the FEAR and the PAIN and the RAGE and the PASSION found in the best Evergrey songs (besides, Carina's all over the cd, which is a very very good thing). I've yet to open the digibook, since I was listening to the cd in the car, but the feeling I get from listening to this album (which I've heard in full for the past month or 2) of being punched in the stomach by the subject matter.