This album starts with the song “Riding On The Dawn,” rocking and swaggering all over the place, providing a great sing along in the chorus and great rock. The S/T track “A Funeral For The World” has that old school doom feel, truly born from listening to a crap ton of Black Sabbath and learning from them. “Demoness” has a great barn-burning feel to it, a classic rock riff starts it with a fast lick before slowing down and allowing the band to show their vocal prowess as well as return to the rock brethren that they are influenced by. “Collateral Damage” is the longest track, showing a softer, non-distorted side of the band before kicking in the distortion and the gallops. “Faith Healers” begins like Blue Oyster Cult, and continues to be radio ready destruction of awesomeness. “No Religion” heaps all the influences heard so far into a 7-minute long song of awesomeness, and possible the most evil sounded chorus on the whole album. Seriously, Erica sounds mean. “Massive Deceiver” is the most straightforward rock song on the whole album, blazing like old-school KISS meets Motley Crue came together to write something together. The album ends with “Die Trying,” which is again, a great song providing a clean verse and a ripping chorus and ending with a slow groove of awesomeness. This album is great and wears its heart on its sleeves. The album makes no-bones about its influences and kindly says “yes we love them…what of it?” I can not recommend this album enough. It is catchy, with hooks to spare, riffs that destroy, and just a cocky swagger. It is a proper throwback while also having a fresh scent and feel to it, bridging a gap between doom, arena rock, the 80’s rock, and the metal of today. Highly recommended, and, to quote Ross Hodo, fellow contributor, if you don’t think so, you’rewrong, and I may fight on disagreements (except with Eugene Robinson…that guy is awesome and scary).
