Mystery

From Century to Delusion Rain

Mystery was formed in 1986 by the multi-instrumentalist Michel St-Pere, a sound engineer at Studio Illusion, with the keyboardist Sylvain Desharnais, as Century; it was renamed because a French band already had the name. The official bio says St-Pere was 17 and that the name was suggested by the keyboardist's girlfriend. A five-song self-titled EP came out in 1992, then Theatre of the Mind (1996, Unicorn) and Destiny? (May 1998, licensed to Musea). Unicorn Digital, the label St-Pere founded, grew to more than 50 artists. Benoit David, who also sang with Yes from 2008 to 2012, became singer in 1999, and the band made Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face (May 15, 2007), One Among the Living (2010, with Oliver Wakeman and Daryl Stuermer, Unicorn's best-selling album ever per Wikipedia) and The World Is a Game (August 10, 2012, with Nick D'Virgilio on drums).

Goyette replaced Steve Gagne on live drums in early 2013, and the first European show was on May 10, 2013 in the Netherlands. The live double Tales from the Netherlands came out on October 1, 2014. Jean Pageau, a longtime Saga fan who had seen Mystery open for Saga in Ottawa in February 2013, joined as singer in spring 2014 and made his studio debut on Delusion Rain (November 1, 2015). Lies and Butterflies followed on July 14, 2018, then Live in Poznan (2019), Caught in the Whirlwind of Time (2020), Redemption (May 15, 2023) and the compilation More than Just a Game (2025). Second Home (2017) was filmed at Progdreams V in Zoetermeer on April 3, 2016, and an autumn 2025 tour marked the ten years of Delusion Rain.

Reviewers compare them to Pink Floyd, Yes, Saga and Clepsydra, and Get Ready to Rock hears David Gilmour in St-Pere's guitar.