This is the third and final of the original albums before Adrian would jump ship and join Whitesnake full time. The album failed to dent the charts in all major markets. It’s not a bad album, it’s just lacking that killer track.
Opener, All The Way, is a decent enough track with a nice riff and hook. Pedal To The Metal has quite a strange groove, but I really like it. Once In A Lifetime is quite a weak ballad. Voodoo has a riff that you will have heard in various forms on a million tracks before. Dressed To Kill is a great up-tempo groover and is my favourite track on the album. Fighting Against The World has quite a busy riff with a straight up 4/4 beat. Back to ballad city with How Long. A short classical acoustic instrumental follows, before the title track bursts into life, and its a straight up AOR melodic groover with a big hook and chorus. The album closes out with Kamikaze – a very keyboard heavy track with a nice chugga riff underneath. I
f you were to have only one Vandenberg album, then my choice would be their first self titled album.
8/10 from The Grooveman.
