My first experience with this band was their Fire Down Under project. It was very good and so is this one. I will definitely be buying more in the future.
Excellent service all round. Packaged well. Sent out promptly. No fuss at all and took me back to my early hard rock days. I saw this back back in 1981-83 and thought excellent.
This is similar to other latter-day Riot albums, a good album of metal with a mature attitude, superior musicianship, and interesting songwriting. The composing is much more complex and detailed than simple riff-based metal, although not in a showoffy kind of way. As is typical with Riot, it takes time for the songs to sink in. It's lacking in true standout material, but is very consistent. The Beatles cover is nice, while the UFO cover is a nice gesture, but ill-advised. The comparison to Rainbow by the one reviewer is quite unfair: this is much harder than latter-day Rainbow. Mike DiMeo might be similar to Joe Lynn Turner in vocal quality, but doesn't have his deal-killing soullessness. It actually sounds eerily similar to Michael Schenker's "Written in the Sand" album, especially vocally. Possibly not the best introduction to the band, but by no means a disappointment.