Cost: 10¢
Pawn shop find. Pretty obvious from the art that it's a guitar instrumental/shred album. This was released on the Pure Metal sub-label, which is misleading in two ways. First of all, as with some of the later Pure Metal titles, it's not a pure metal release! It's a bit heavier than I was expecting, and though quite bluesy at times, mostly stays within the general hard rock spectrum. But it's definitely not instrumental metal or neo-classical Yngwie cloning or anything like that.
Secondly, it's not heavy-handedly Christian at all--very surprising for Pure Metal. In fact, I would say the two Jeff Scheetz albums are the least overtly religious releases the label ever did! Jesus gets a mandatory shout-out in the thanks list and one of the songs has a clear Christian title and theme, but this could have easily been released on a secular label. I suppose they were trying to cater to all the lost souls in Steve Vai's fanbase. Though I have nothing bad to say about the playing, I'm generally not a huge fan of this sort of stuff. The major players of the instrumental rock guitar scene don't interest me, let alone this guy, so this is another disc doomed to fill up shelf space.
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