The forgotten third album from the Tygers and it’s quite amazing how the sound had changed since the first record only a year and a half earlier. Gone was the full on metal of the first and was replaced by a band struggling for a sound. It’s obvious they were going for a more melodic sound, probably due to pressure from the record company, but this album suffered in my opinion.
The first two tracks are pretty standard for the period with very simple riffs, and it’s not until we get to Track 3 with Never Satisfied that things hot up a bit and the quality goes up a notch. Last track on Side 1, Running Out Of Time, tries hard to capture the true nature of the band, but the production is very flat and wooden.
It’s more of the same over on Side 2. The title track is just ok, and Deverill is over singing and not singing for the song. An attempt to boost up the guitars with effects has been made on Down And Out, but it’s just ok. Bearing in mind Sykes would leave after this album to join Thin Lizzy and write Thunder And Lightning – I am struggling to hear any of what is obviously John’s ideas and riffs on this record. Then Lonely Man arrives and I’m gonna stick my hat on that he had a big hand in writing this one. Make A Stand comes and goes, and the best track on the record is Raised On Rock which closes out the album.
So not a great record compared to the two albums that came before, and that’s what we have to compare it to.
6/10 from The Grooveman.
