Cost: $2.99
This CD is available for trade.
This is Jack Frost's (of Seven Witches fame) old band, so I was expecting standard heavy or power metal. Even the band photos (every member clad all in black with a leather jacket) didn't hint at anything amiss, but I found it very disappointing.
The combination of rocking sensibilities, commerciality, and overuse of balladish material here make it seem more like an '80s hair band record than a real heavy metal album. They're not commercial in the typical glammy/sleazy L.A.-style metal way, but there are just some awful musical choices here..."Wish" and "Spotlight" brought Tesla to mind, and at the end of "2nd Time Around," the band suddenly switches the chorus to Sha-na-na-na-na, something that seems more appropriate for the Bay City Rollers.
Know how in the '80s, even smaller and more underground bands would generally put a ballad or an overly commercial/light/mellow/whatever-you-want-to-call-it track on a release? Imagine a full-length made up of nothing but songs like that, and that approximates this release. The kindest thing I can say about it is that it was released in 1994 but seems completely believable as an '80s recording.
I guess there was an older independent press which Locomotive used scans of for this reissue, because on the inside of the booklet, they neglected to crop out the original page edge and tab mark damage from a CD case. So there are actually indentation marks printed onto the booklet, making the layout look cheap and rushed.
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