This is the first album by Germany’s finest purveyors of Prog/Metal. Before they truly found their sound on the absolutely stunning The God Thing, they were a cross between Dokken and Dream Theater with slightly more radio friendly material.
The opening to Father is seriously dramatic, with the classical instruments giving way to a crushingly heavy riff and a fantastic song. The riff to Push is pure melodic rock heaven, and it leads into another killer song with some nice guitar from Stephan Lill. This is basically the whole album: great songs with some great playing, and a killer in your face production. My favourite track is Judas, it’s a superb song with everything that I love in a rock song all squeezed into its 6.04 minutes.
This album was originally released in ’94 and still sounds great today. Another band that don’t mean a whole bunch once you leave Europe, which astounds me, but what do I know. If you love hard rock played well and with great attention to detail, this will not disappoint you.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
