ENCHANT - Wounded & Time Lost

Double CD for the 2nd & 3rd album by west US based band Enchant. AFter a debut album that will be talk over an Afterthough post as it is so great, here's the so feared second album plus the EP that became a third album after some -more writings sessions , now combine with sleeves notes and mixed artwork (thanks for that wounded was not so great as crude CGI goes)

On the good side, the band does indeed afine it's style of an energic prog rock with a sound of it's own, backed up by the half cry, half lamantations vocals by Ted Leonard (Hi Ted, love you man).
Enchant really get it's enchanted sound that will go on now until the last albums.
The bad part of it is that after a great three tracks most of the wounded delivers a good deal of nice songs building the Enchant-style but without real riffs, melody or stuff that really shines.
Interesting enough the second CD, the EP, collection of lost, reworked tracks is of better quality with most of the track leaving at least a chorus, a bridge, a solo worth buzzing in the ear.
If possible one could seek out the old time lost CD but if not the special edition is nice indeed... though it might have been good to merge to make another great album instead of two 'smaller' ones.
On wounded the tracks are the first three (below zero, fade to grey and pure) are the highlights while the second are (above all) Mettle men (with the looooong intro ^^) and of course the almost 11 mn long interact song.
Good to discover Enchant but not the best in this dual form... though both could have make a great album.