This is the first of only two albums that Drive released at the end of the eighties. They played all the usual places on the Sunset Strip but at this point in time that scene was a total glam fest, and for an out an out power/prog metal outfit with a shredder (Rick Chavez) on guitar, maybe LA wasn’t the place for them.
The vocals and accompanying harmonies do remind me of Impellitteri, David Taylor has one hell of a set of pipes. The first two songs on both sides are really good and the rest is just filler. The favourite of these for me is The Entity. Double kicks all the way, a very busy riff, and a tasty solo.
It’s all about good songs no matter what genre you are in, and if you don’t have them, then life gets hard. Four out of the nine are good, but when there are a ton of other bands competing for the same audience, as there was back in ´88, it all needs to be killer.
6.5/10 from The Grooveman.
