"In a world where it's hard to find anything original, in which nothing and nobody is really innovative, newcomers THOUGHT CHAMBER manage to draw attention right from the start with their debut album Angular Perceptions.", that's what you can read in the info of the record-label. And with this quote the problem is named in an evident way right in the beginning. The five US-Americans, no one of them a dark horse anymore, are aiming very high and they have delivered a decent sample of their creativity. Still I can not get rid of this impression: I've heard something like this before, somewhere!
I don't want to start a list of bands I think of while listening to THOUGHT CHAMBER. I don't like those comparisons that most of the time have a negative taste, anyway. But I think I can clearly hear some Dream Theater in there - that's meant in a positive way! The lyrics have something of Symphony X, probably I get this impression because of the related topics.

The length of the ten songs (including three instrumentals) is matching radio-play, which is not necessarily bad – Steven Wilson wrote his best songs in this span and more or less failed in the longtracks – nevertheless, if the band had more time in longtracks to develop their ideas, to savor them, it would probably give the music a boost.
No song is really standing out, except for the ballad Silent Shore, but more because it is quite tame. Even the "Ensemble Licks", quick question-answer-sequences of solo-instruments have been presented by others before, and are losing effect when they are becoming too quick-changing.
In spite of all these points the music is performed on a very high and virtuous level throughout the album and Ted Leonard (Enchant) enriches THOUGHT CHAMBER with his calm but versatile voice.
It is interesting that Michael Harris, guitarist and head of the band, sees his music definitely as Progressive Rock. One has to say then, that this isn't Progressive Metal, but Progressive Rock with Metal influences.
Something very special created John E. Holland with his artwork for Angular Perceptions. Okay, maybe it is the typical digital SciFi stuff we always get to see here and there, but it is very well done and not as sterile as it has been known in general.

I think that THOUGHT CHAMBER still have some way ahead to become that supergroup Harris dreams about. But after all Angular Perceptions is one more piece of music worth listening to in the Prog Rock/Metal scene, which should arouse many people's curiosity for future-outputs of the band.