This album makes me pretty happy.
I used to listen to ISOT / Recration Day / The Inner Circle a lot when my grandma died, and at the funeral I decided to play 'Til Dagmar' from the Monday Morning Apocalypse album (which I didn't like at the time, except for that one beautiful piano piece).
That led to my mother playing some other tunes from the MMA album, and she totally got into the mournful tone that Evergrey usually pursue in their music.
I was glad Jonas and Henrik returned to the band with the Hymns for the Broken record, bought tickets to see them in Holland together with my mom, but our car broke down whilst underway to the gig.
Knowing they had another show coming up in The Netherlands, I reached out to the management to explain we bought tix but had such bad luck, asking them if it might be possible to go to the other show instead for "free".
Because it was the same agency that handled the gigs, they could arrange this, with Tom even replying to the e-mail telling the management to help us out.
The gig was fantastic and now these guys released another totally killer album.