Labels: self released
Review by: Alex Deller
Hadn’t heard anything by this lot since that split with Senneval many moons ago, but here they are, back again with 11 hefty dollops of crunchy metallic stuff that thunders along like nobody’s business. Opener “Watch It Burn” does the trick nicely, all meaty riffs, vocal snarls and zero fucking around but things head into dodgier territory by just the second track, the nimble guitar melodies the guys eke in not always hitting the mark and the clean vocals falling worse than flat. That trade-off pretty much sets the standard for how the rest of the album progresses, a mingling of good solid metal smarts and pish ideas that see the band striving for Saviours / Sword / Baroness territory but lacking the wherewithal to ensure an early morning phonecall from Lars Ulrich and a series of stadium support slots.